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...Orleans, Len Eshmont (No. 1 ground gainer last year) was swamped by Tulane's smashing Green Wave-and Fordham, pre-season pride of the East, was beaten (7-to-0) by a team from the Deep South for the second week in a row (last fortnight it lost to Alabama...
...football, linemen do the dirty work but the backs get the bouquets. This year, as usual, pre-season football prognosticators focused their attention on the outstanding college backs of the year. Most experts agreed that this year's crop was the most brilliant collection of all time: Michigan's Harmon and Kromer, Purdue's Brock and Brown, Notre Dame's Saggau and Zontini, Tennessee's Cafego, Pitt's Cassiano, Fordham's Eshmont, Duke's McAfee, many & many another...
...York's Polo Grounds, a powerful Fordham team-boasting two of the best backs in the country (Eshmont and Blumenstock) and a 220-lb. tackle (Kuzman) called "Little Sir Wrecker" because he injured several of his teammates during pre-season scrimmage-was outrushed and outsmarted by a going-to-town Alabama team...
Once more Francis Wallace in his yearly football pre-season prediction that appears in this week's Saturday Evening Post has indicated that the Crimson is likely to come through with the Big Three Title...
Last week the Cincinnati Reds were leading the National League by seven and a half games and the New York Yankees were leading the American League by eight. To most baseball fans this was not surprising. The majority of pre-season prognosticates had picked the Reds and Yankees as favorites in the 1939 pennant race. What was surprising were the names of the two pitchers who had so far been the push that put them in front: Bucky Walters and Atley Donald...