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Srtm-M(MARU KNOXVILLE TENNESSEE SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER Section Vi KJ 9 9 0 Double of Vol BUTLER COES FOR TOUCHDOWN-Ai Hust Sets Up the Opportunity upturn ikm Here are two plays that resulted in Tennessee's second touchdown Saturday against Mercer In the circle Al Hust is shown catching a 16-yard pass from Johnny Butler placing the half on the 33 yard line In the other picture Butleris shown as he crossed the goal a few moments later on a 4-yard jaunt lewi-Sentinel Tulane Goes the Way of All Pre Jy Telephoto Season Champs U-T Shows Power in inning by 49-0 Give Promise 'of Beating Wade Men By HAROLD HARRIS Newi-Senttnel Sports Writer riaying before 20000 spectators largest crowd to ever see an opening game here 1940 football machine pulled back the curtain on the present campaign Saturday by shellacking a fighting if outclassed Alercer verity out-Tit 49-0 at ShieldsWatkina Field Obviously'' not trying to ran up a one-sided score the Voli got all the breaks and converted most of them Into touchdowns and when the final whistle had blown the Vols were credited with seven tourhdowni and aa many extra points Major Neyland used every man available with the exception of three reserves In humbling the Bears in a typical opening game While they didn't show mib-sea-son form the Vols looked power ful rugged and cohesive in their play and brought a mighty hope to their followers that they will trample Blue Devils when (Turn to Tage 8 This Section) blooded individuals are unable to hold themselves in check The rivalry started at Tuscaloosa Ala one Ortober Saturday In 1928 It was a new rivalry and there was nothing so the fans thought to get upset about They settled hack In Iheir seats some still filing In as the whistle blew for the klrkoff Alabama klrked tho ball to Grne MeEver ho took it on the five-yard line He rame (Turn to Faga 8 This Section) Know Him? A W'-( js'rc-Vy i' yf -i Remember him? He's Veo Yon stocky blond who formerly played guard for Knoxville Nigh's Trojans but who Saturday started at fullhark for Mercer against Tennessee field goals during the nine years they have matched wits No wonder that writers have torn their hair have thrown away their hats have been attacked with audden rases of typewriter paralysis and other ailments Wade and Neyland clash" Scouts from other school have been seen to push sway their notebooks and rise from their seats to cheer the beauty of plays that are always made The boys in tht press usually cold USC Tied in Season1 Off to Topsy-turvy Start With Surprises BrORlMFiM NEW YORK Sept The 1940 football season was ushered in formally this week-end in topsyturvy fashion that threatens to make the campaign one of the most turbulent in years Featuring the hectic Inaugural results was mighty Southern California's stunning 14-14 deadlock with Washington State In addition three other potential candidates for national honnra were beaten: Washington Tulane and North Carolina Southern California Rose Bowl victor and King of the Pacific Coast Conferencee was regarded by many expert! stronger than last season Just as Startling Almost as startling was Tulane'i rrushing 27-7 defeat by Boston College at New Orleans Tulane unbeaten in regular season competition last year was touted as stronger this one of the nation's most formidable aggregations This victory and the ease with which it was accomplished brands Frank Leahy's Boston outfit as a mighty contender for the mythical national crown Less of a shock was Minnesota's 19-14 virtory over the highly regarded Washington Huskies from (Turn to Page 8 This Section) Alabama 13 Tennessee 15 Alabama 9 Tennessee 8 Alabama 18 Tenneaaee I Duke 2: Tennessee 25 Duke 13 Tennessee 18 Duke 10 Tennessee 2 Duke 6 Tennessee 14 Duke 19 Tennessee 8 (Bill Britton coach) Duke 13 Tennessee IS Duke 9 Tennessee 9 Now to break (hose figures down Wade and Neyland have met nine times Neyland has won Wade Men Look Like a Million Colonel Bob Reports Blue Devils Hide Their Strength By BOB WILSON News-Sentinel Sports Editor DURHAM CH Sept 28 Duke'i mighty Blue Devils naturally playing under orders nnt to show their real strength before their highly important battle with Tennessee at Knoxville Saturday keep frum looking like a million dollars in manhandling Virginia Military Institute's greatr est team in years 23 to 0 here this afternoon before 7000 fans In the season's opener Crafty 1 roaches like Wallace Wade of Duke and Bob Neyland of Tennessee never show their hands before a big game but there was nothing that the Blue Devil mentor rould do to prevent his 1948 edition from looking like a world beater He made a brave effort to prevent this by starting his serond team against the Flying Cadets but he made a mistake when he started Steve Lach 190-pound Junior halfback from Altoona Ta and a little later Inserted Moffatt Storer 169-pound hslf-(Tum to Tage 8 This Section) "Thfl Clash of Giants" "The fur will fly (n Knoxville And loud will be the crush The gore will flow In Knoxville When Wade and Neyland clash "Oh what a treat in Knoxville Oh fortunate the fans Who see the mighty struggle Between these gridiron elans "The cry I 'On to Where history will be made To see the clash of giants When Major Bob meets Fullhark Klssler of Boston College (tackled by No 49) Is the first score In the game In which Boston upset Tulane 27 to 7 OIc Miss-Wins Over LSU 19-6 Scores Twice in Last Five Minutes to Overcome Tigers I'aitM PrfM BATON ROUGE La Sept 28 A dynamic University of Mississippi football team scored twice in the final five minutes tonight to defeat Louisiana State University 19 to 6 Ole Miss took its fourth consecutive- victory over LSU with a passing and running game that gained power as the match progressed LSU Drew First Blood LSU drew blood in the first per iod Mississippi followed in the serond The score remained tied with Mississippi's advantage not too obvious to those In the stands until the powerful Ole Miss attack caused the Louisiana defense to crumple in the final quarter LSU defending the north goal won the toss and rlerted to receive LSU grounded the ball on Its own 87-yard line 10 Bird unsuccessfully tried to fling dlrlslve passes to Texaa Charley Johnson Gerald Bight-tower replaced Bird and led i Please Turn To Page 4 six of them Wade two and one was 8 scoreless tie Of the nine games one was decided by 23 points '(Tennessee's win" over Wade's first-Duke team in 1931) one was decided by 14 points two by eight points one by six points one by three points two by two points and one was a scoreless tie 4 Safeties 2 Goals To show how close the two coaches play their cards there have been four safeties and two Our Bools Upsets in Belmont Race riiMt Pw NEW YORK Sept Spinning along at a $1000-a-second 1 No Grid Contest in Country Can Match Game for Brilliance of Play and Bitterness of Combat Telephoto shown going through center for for King Cole and $340 for Whirl away Until today the Martin Colt had earned only $1850 but he took his place is the biggest money winner of the year and the moat valuable thoroughbred of hia age in the world that they put ao much into their regular jeaion game that they didn't have it left to go on through undefeated Consolation Game They resume play at Knoxville A "consolation" game it is as both lost to Southern Cal on the coast by 7-3 Tennessee by 13-0 Wade has crossed up with Tennessee 10 one year when Bill Britton waa in charge while Neyland was In the Army Here are the scores of past games: clip a bargain-counter colt named Our Boots roared down the golden road of the Slat Belmont Futurity to the American two-year-old championship today Our Boots paid only $1420 $880 and $460 to $420 and $330 the had Just rather beat each other than anyone else and when their teams come together youll sec the two most steamed-up hell-for-leathcr football outfits evrr seen This year Tennessee and Duke respme their rivalry after a two-year lapse That two-year lapse saw both go to the Rose Bowl Duke in 1938 and Tennessee last January Down South they say that either of the two teama might have gone to the coast it waa the first trip for but By BIORGAN BLARE Atlanta (Go) tawl THE time may come when for sheer brilliance of play and bitterness of combat there will be a rivalry between two coaches which will come up to that of Captain Wallare Wade of Duke and Major Robert Neyland of Tennessee These two ex-Anny officers the two ranking coaches In Dixie today and whose records leave them right pp there with the ena-two In I i.