Wondering Boys

Sure to be selected on every All-America is Texas Christian's little quarterback, Davey O'Brien, outstanding player of the year, who has been the vanguard of his team's victorious procession over their ten opponents this season. Against Southern Methodist last week little Davey led a strategic attack that not only gave Coach Dutch Meyer's Horned Frogs a 20-to-7 victory but the championship of the Southwest Conference as well. Its work done, Texas Christian sat back, basked in its record of 254 points and 3,593 yards gained this season, wondered if it would get a bid to the Rose Bowl.

>Another back hard to overlook is Tennessee's fast-stepping George Cafego. who has gone a long way toward making Coach Bob Neyland's Volunteers the No. 1 surprise of the year. Considered second-class by most pre-season prognosticators, Halfback Cafego & Co. ran up a string of eight victories in a row, made it nine last week against Kentucky (46-to-0), won the championship of the Southeastern Conference and wondered if they would get a bid to the Rose Bowl.

>Most sportswriters agree that Pitt's Marshall Goldberg deserves the fullback position on this year's All-America. Shifted to the dirty work of blocking this fall (and thereby sacrificing the limelight). Goldberg made the Pitt attack powerful. contributed more than his share to the superb coordination of the "dream backfield." When he was on the sidelines with a leg injury four weeks ago Pitt lost its first game in two years (to Carnegie Tech). Last week it lost again--on a fluke to Duke. Although Duke won the game (7-to-0) on a lucky block of an end-zone punt and got only one first down to Pitt's nine, Wallace Wade's Blue Devils have been so much better than all their other opponents this year they have piled up the most extraordinary record of any major U. S. team: undefeated, untied and unscored on in nine games. Crowned champion of the Southern Conference. Duke celebrated and wondered if it would get a bid to the Rose Bowl.

>Pasadena's Rose Bowl, original of the dozen copies of the countrywide Bowl fashion, is still the No. 1 post-season game of the U. S. Contrary to popular impression, it is not a contest between the best Western and best Eastern team. It is a contest between the best team of the Pacific Coast Conference and any other team in the country that the Conference's choice chooses to invite. Last week when Southern California trounced the University of California at Los Angeles, 42-to-7, it finished its Conference season in a dead heat with the University of California--six victories and one defeat apiece. But, since Southern California had roundly whipped California when they met four weeks ago, the Conference selection committee picked U. S. C.* represent the West Coast on Jan. 2.

Few hours later all the wondering suddenly ceased: U. S. C. picked Duke's Blue Devils to furnish the opposition. Duke accepted.

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