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Alabama which made first downs to the four out-rushed Fordham 152 yards to 79 and was helped enormously by the fine punting of Mosley and Boswell NEW YORK Oct 7 Hayward (Sandy) Sanford who specializes in making good on vital place-kicks came throught as advertised this afternoon to boot big Red Elephant into a 7-6 victory over what had been rated a high-promising Fordham football team While Sanford lived up to his promise in adding the extra point to Sophomore Jimmy first period touchdown Fordham felL far short of the mark it was expected to reach In full view of 41454 customers at the Polo Grounds the Rams showed a passing attack as antiquated as the Wright flying machine They connected for the aerial that gained 28 yards in midfield but they threw 1 1 others that were as far wide of their receivers Alabama on the other hapd moving impressively along the ground tried only four passes completed two and used only one on the way to its touchdown This came in the early minutes of the first quarter Checked after moving 25 yards from the opening kickoff the Tide came right back from an exchange of punts to go 40 yards for its score The biggest gain and the scoring one was 18-yard sprint around right end Charley Boswell first faked the ball to Fullback John Hanson then fed it to the speedster As Nelson cut across the goal line Sanford already was off the bench and on his way into the ball game He stepped into position and kicked a placement From then until the final quarter when it capitalized on a blocked quick kick tb go 17 yards for its score Fordham made only two threats One fizzled out in' the air in the first quarter after a neat three-man punt return had covered 61 yards and given the Rams first down on Alabama's 19 and the other was stopped by an end zone pass interception after Fordham had recovered a 'Bama fumble on the 21 -yard line That interception by Herky Mosley gave Alabama the ball on its 20 Held by the Ram line n-' -'r kirk Fordham Tackle Joe Ungerer L-- -v Aisf Fordham Guard Tom Bennett recovered the balL In five plays the Rams went over with Dominick Principe regular fullback who was hurt in the first quarter bucking through from the two-foot line Alex Yudi-kaitis missed the try for extra point Otherwise the game was all Nelson Kazlo Hanson Princepe Score by periods: Alabama 7 0 7 Fordham 6 ft I Alabama scoring Touchdown: Nelson point after touchdown: Sanford (sub' for Newman) placement Fordham scoring Touchdown: Principe Alabama substitutes Ends: Sanford Hast tackles: Border Wood guards: Wyhowanec Watson center: Averitte backs: McCurray Mosley Spencer Fordham substitutes Ends: Poniatow- tackles: Hudack Ungerer guards: Sar- toria Bennett center Defillippo backs £shmont Fortunato Noble Friedgen Holovak VOL OPPONENTS' SCORES Alabama 7 Kentucky 21 Chattanooga 0 Fordham 6 Vandy 13 Miss Col 0 Ay KNOXVILLE TENNESSEE SUNDAY OCTOBER 8 1939 -Jr 4 if--s MV One reason why George Gefego is hailed as an All-American grid performer is vividly pictured at left Cafego has just received a pant on his 48 and gone to the sidelines lie eluded Ross Apperson (31) Sewanee end third quarter At right Van Thompson understudy to Cafego is shown being tackled by Captain Whittington -y--? vi -y vvx-v y- only managed an infield fly in this frame but Catcher Bill Dickey up right behind him crashed a homer deep into the bleachers some 375 feet away That was the end of junior the 22-year-old right- hander who have anything even closely resembling the stuff shown by his pitching mates Paul Derringer then cut across the field to touchdown The play came and Bucky Walters who lost the first two games in New York despite heroic hurling That too was the end of the assault for Lefty Lee Grissom and young Lloyd (Whitey) Moore handcuffed them completely all the way through the last four innings Not a Yankee reached base In Gallops Feature Champs9 Second Easy Win N- Butler Cafego and Wallen Break Away For Long Touchdown Journeys Team Shows Improvement Over First Combat By TOM ANDERSON To the unbounded astonishment of exactly nobody heartless Vols massacred the Sewanee Tigers 40-0 yesterday on Shields-Watkins Field in the initial appearance at home of the 1938 SEC monarchs Approximately 18000 people including several thousand school children attending as gratis guests of the university watched mighty men roll over one touchdown in the first period three in7the second and two in the third' Early in the third canto the Orange overlord ejected his first stringers and shooed them off to the showers Third' and fourth-string athletes remained on the field throughout most of the last two quarters The game went precisely as informed fans had anticipated Although the combatants are members of the same league the pathetically outclassed Tigers had no business on the gridiron in opposition to the Vols: This was seconds- Sunday sports hash: Almost tearfully Frank Thomas- told interviewers here the other day that Sandy Sanford place-kicking marvel of the Crimson Tide was badly injured and probably would be of no use against the Fordham Rams So what? So Sanford booted the goal after touchdown that enabled the Southeastern Conference representatives to eliminate the Rams from national championship consideration 7-6 Bear Bryant who played a brilliant game here with an alleged broken leg scouted the Vols for Alabama yesterday He must have got a laugh out of the report of injury and his New York accomplishment Bobcat Coaches Sing Blues With Young Game In Offing Robert Suffridge of the U-T Vols will he happy to read what Will Grimsley says about him in the Nashville Tennessean Writes Will: was Henry Gude (Vandy center) who in the Vanderbilt-Ten-nessce freshman game of 1936 made famous Suffridge resemble just another palooka on the field Every time Suffridge tried to do something that day he found himself reclining on the sitting end of his anatomy with the big Commodore center on be seeing you here November 18 Mr Gude Ex-Trojan Romps continue unmolested for a in the first minute of the that time and only three of them managed to hit balls out of the infield On the other hand the Yankee twirling although well below the form of Red Ruffing and Monte Pearson in the first two games was not bad once it got Continued on Page 6 Col 3 Jr- KJ -y A orderly fashion against Lenoir City Thursday night The blocking down field showed 100 per cent improvement and White Galyon and Davis maintained a stalwart line Smith and Wilson ran the LC team off their feet The meeting with Central will undoubtedly be one of the games of the year puff-over contest the homelings having quelled North Carolina State 13-0 in Raleigh a week ago Next week-end the Vols will journey to Chattanooga for a third straight helping of ham and eggs before moving up into their own class and encountering the prodigious Red Elephants of Alabama As compared with their performance against the Wblfpack in the inaugural the Vols yesterday were something approximating themselves of one year ago The blocking at times wps Bombers Finally Open Fire To Great Sorrow Of Rhineland By SID FEDER CROSLEY FIELD CINCINNATI Oct 7 (A) The New York powerhouse after travelling in low gear before masterful pitching for two days broke loose its home run lightning today to smash the Cincinnati Reds 7 to 3 for the third straight victory in the 1939 World Serier With the pitching giving way to the attack on both sides for the first time in this series the bombing squad from the Bronx blasted four home runs two by Rookie Charley Keller and gave a strongly partisan crowd -of 32723 home-club rooters a display of the dynamite which has made it famous in its last three straight world championship triumphs In near mid-summer weather that had every one of the jam-packed stands a mass of shirt- sleeves the Yankees made only five hits-to 10 for the National League kings but- they waste a one as Rookie Junior Thompson served his ball to them in just the right spots in the first five innings Keller clouted his first four-bagger after Frankie Crosetti had walked in the opening inning Then clouting Charley drew a pass with two out in the third and Joe DiMaggio snapped out of his series hitting doldrums with a towering smash that soared high over the 383-foot mark on the centerfield fence and into the street beyond Red Rolfe singled with one away in the fifth and was promptly brought aroUnd by second four-bagger a hard-hit drive that landed about 10 rows back in the right field bleachers DiMaggio 6 South Overcoming Obstacles NEW YORK Oct 7 Gov Frank Dixon of Alabama laughingly remarked today that the Crimson victory over Fordham was proof that the South overcoming the very well pleased with the he added The governor saw the game with an official Alabama party BUTLER -V 1 The hand-painted athletic supporter for expert prognosticating this week goes to Hek Clark Sewanee coach In his Farragut Hotel room Friday night Hek told this correspondent that he figured the Vols would humble his Tigers by 40 points be satisfied with that he added He called it exactly right Clark says he has no regrets about retiring from coaching He as you know will give up the Sewanee portfolio at the end of the current season have been wanting to get out for several years but until now have never had anything that suited me to fall back Conference Gets Day's Major Laurels Teams Will Tangle On Evans-Collins Field Friday Night By SMITH Coaches Harvey Robinson and Eubank the genial mentors to coin a phrase of Central High School had reason to sing dolorous ditties yesterday after rechecking the results of their game with Greeneville The Reason: Three" Bobcats were hurt pretty badly in the Greeneville game and added to thos ealready on the list it appeared a badly riddled Bobcat coiqbine would have to face Young Yellowjack-ets next Friday night at Evans Collins Field looks ike pretty well battered for the Coach Eubank said yesterday Dave Cawrse regular guard who has had a badly cut lip all season received another lick on that sore spot and is in bad shape Cawrse tackle received a bum knee that might not only keep him out of the Young game but several other games Teague also injured his knee According to Coach Eubank the Green Devils had a good team and the Bobcats were very fortunate to win had a good heavy Eubank said been able to scout the boys and they pulled some pretty good plays About the only thing I can say is that our passing worked and theirs That was the margin of victory Young High pulled what was considered in some quarters an upset last year in knocking off the Bobcats 6-0 Young fans murderous with Tigers strewn all ver the premises On Johnny spectacular 63-yard touchdown peregrination the interference was particularly efficient and when the former Knoxville High School Trojan pranced into the end zone not a member of the Tiger secondary was vertical The Vols employed about every known method of scoring touchdowns Two resulted from Continued on Page 6 Col 4 Nearer home University of Mississippi Rebels coached by Harry Mehre catapulted themselves into a 41 to 0 win over Southwestern at Memphis Volunteers got away to their defense of' the conference crown with a 40 to 0 win over Sewanee at Knoxville Vanderbilt after its big comeback last week against Rice had another sinking spell bowing to the Kentucky Wildcats 21 to 13 at Nashville Tulane established itself firmly among the first flight elevens by breaking a three-year tie jinx and taking Auburn into tow at New Orleans 12 to 0 Disaster overtook Wallace Georgia team in the form of a 20 to 0 defeat at the hands of a versatile Furman University outfit Friday night at Greenville Press box occupants yesterday were thankful to the university for the free refreshments Sandwiches and soft drinks were passed around at the intermission Well it looks like the Vols are going to do all right Their masters seem to be pacing them just about as they did last season bringing them along gradually improving with every game and working toward perfection on the afternoon they will be asked to engage in athletics with the Crimson Tide of Alabama Against the Tigers the Vols had considerably more co-ordination or cohesion or one of them there big long words The attack held together much better than was the case in Raleigh Johnny Butler sophomore Vol halfback is showing his former tutor that he remembered his early training in the above picture Butler is seen nearing the goal after a 63-yard gallop The official Is Field Judge Wilson Collins who taught Butler his early football knowledge at Knoxville High School By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Southeastern Conference showered itself with laurels yesterday in big time intersectional competition Showing the way for a trio of outfits that fared forth against faraway foes Crimson Tide heralding itself as a power to be reckoned with in home competition took the measure of the mighty Tordham Rams 7 to 6 in New York Louisiana State University despite its upset last week by Mississippi had enough left to dazzle Holy Cross into a 26 to 7 defeat at Worcester Mass while Georgia Tech did itself proud by running up two touchdowns ugainst Notre Dame and holding the Irish to 17-14 on their home field say it was no accident and that they intend to make it a bigger margin this time But Coach Farmer Johnson is not optimistic were pretty lucky last yea he declared has us outweighed and cut-experienced this year If the boys play their best have to be satisfied with the Yotmg's Jackets clicked in an Proving that disloyalty does not pay I lost out on one football ticket because I preferred Fordham over Alabama one of my several alma mothers Escar Thompson rushes into the office shouting that he also called the Vol-Tiger score exactly fight So for him also a hand-painted athletic supporter One for the books: so-called varsity registered three touchdowns on eight running plays And let us by Continued on Page 6 Col 3.