Sputter

The 1937 football season flared up and sputtered out for good last week on 1938's first day when 14 teams met in well-ballyhooed post-season games. Six were Bowl games, a unique U. S. institution founded for the purpose of publicizing southern winter resorts. The seventh was a game for charity, between picked players from Eastern and Western colleges.* played at San Francisco for the 13th year for the benefit of the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children.

P:For the Rose Bowl game, No. 1 game of the day, 90,000 people besieged Pasadena to see the University of California play the University of Alabama. California was bent on spoiling Alabama's record of never having been defeated in the Rose Bowl. In the first quarter Alabama outplayed California. But in the second quarter the pounding of the heavier California line began to tell on Alabama, and California's Vic Bottari hustled around right end for a touchdown from the 3-yd. line. He duplicated the play in the next quarter, and that ended the scoring. California won, 13-to-0

P:Interest in the Cotton Bowl game in Dallas between Rice and the University of Colorado lay in seeing whether Rice could box up Rhodes Scholar-Select Byron ("Whizzer") White. But in the firct ten minutes of play White smartly intercepted a pass for one touchdown, successfully completed a pass for another, and kicked a pair of extra points, before his line petered out. Then the Rice line smothered him while two Rice sophomores, Ernie Lain and Olie Cordill, led their team to four touchdowns. Score: Rice 28, Colorado 14.

P:Other games:

In the Sugar Bowl, New Orleans--Santa Clara 6, Louisiana State 0.

In the Orange Bowl. Miami--Alabama Poly (Auburn) 6, Michigan State 0.

In the Sun Bowl. El Paso--West Virginia 7, Texas Tech 6.

In the Poi Bowl. Honolulu--University of Washington 53, University of Hawaii 13. >>

In San Francisco--West 0. East 0.

-Pacific Coast and Far Western players are chosen to represent the West; Midwestern and Eastern players to represent the East. This year the West team was selected and coached by Lawrence (''Biff") Jones of Nebraska and Orin Hollingbcry of Washington State: the East by Andy Kerr of Colgate and Bernie Bierman of Minnesota.

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