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...culled from the 1,500 recent varsity players now in khaki, is split into two task forces: Eastern and Western. The Western group is coached by Major Wallace Wade, whose Alabama and Duke teams have been picked for the Rose Bowl five times. The Eastern group, under Colonel Bob Neyland-another football mastermind whose bone-crushing Tennessee teams won 30 straight games in 1938-39-40-will start its four-game series against the New York Giants Sept...
South. Last week Duke swamped Tennessee, 19-to-0. No one was surprised. Tennessee, unconquered by any regular-season opponent during the past three years, has this year lost 13 lettermen as well as its supereminent coach, Major Bob Neyland, U.S.A. If Duke can get by Colgate, Pitt and Georgia Tech on successive Saturdays, Wallace Wade's Blue Devils may be well on the way toward their second trip to the Rose Bowl in four years...
Summoned for active duty with the U.S. Army Engineers was convivial, hard-boiled Major Robert Reese Neyland Jr., skillful University of Tennessee football coach who for years kept the Volunteers among the nation's best...
...Conference champion, undefeated not only this season but last season and the season before, was another top-ranking candidate to represent the "East" in the Rose Bowl. But they too let Stanford down. After walloping Vanderbilt, 20-to-0, last week for their 32nd victory in a row, Bob Neyland's Volunteers-who went to the Rose Bowl last year, the Orange Bowl the year before-decided that they wanted to see gay New Orleans, voted to accept New Orleans' bid to the Sugar Bowl (with a $75,000 guarantee for their university...
...setup, 90,000 fans squeezed into Pasadena's famed saucer last week and millions more the world over listened at their radios. Tennessee lacked Southern California's bonecrushing manpower. It had no giants like Smith and Sohn (2201b. guards), but its boys were fast, cagey and tough. Neyland, a hardbitten perfectionist, had made them the best-drilled blockers in the land...