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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1939
Page
12
New York reports nine remaining unbeaten teams. Tennessee Duquesne Texas A&M and Cornell carry perfect records while North Carolina and Duke sit with ties as action intensifies this Saturday.
The column questions national football rating systems and highlights their flaws while noting consensus among four popular methods. Texas A and M tops the list alongside Oklahoma Cornell USC North Carolina Tennessee Ohio State Notre Dame Missouri Duquesne UCLA Holy Cross Duke Nebraska Fordham Clemson Santa Clara Minnesota SMU in a blended ranking.
Regular Miami University football center Mills Mran des from Sandusky is out for the season with mumps. The team physician monitors players for signs while others like Southern California UCLA and Oklahoma idle this week.
The executive committee of the Ohio Rifle and Pistol Association will meet in Columbus on Navy 26 to arrange plans for the 15th annual Mid West smallbore rifle shoot to be held in Columbus February 23 to 25 at Fort Hayes barracks. The committee will also plan improvements for the state rifle range between Mansfield and Mount Gilead.
Florence South Carolina reports Barton Richard Nowak a Prague midget 23 inches tall dreams of fighting Adolf Hitler. He says in a dark room he would strike and crawl over him like a hornet despite acknowledging he cannot outslug the dictator.
Ohio State beat Chicago 61 0. about 2 000 in attendance. Iowa’s Nile Kinnick nominates Mike Enich for All America and Erwin Prasse for captain. Prasse picks Kinnick. Dave Rankin of Purdue praised as Big Ten’s best end. Bob Zuppke faces Ohio State again. seven wins two losses in 13 meetings. Northwestern’s Don Clawson shines. Wisconsin struggles to minimize errors. Numerous Big Ten centers praised. Madigan’s St Mary’s visits Chicago. 90 000 TB beds noted in U S.
A colorful sketch mocks Fordham St Marys football as an 11 man fashion show at the Polo Grounds. The piece imagines pressbox fashionistas replacing sportswriters and describes Gaels players in vivid blue coats with cerise satin linings while joking about the game’s onfield prospects.
New Orleans inventors Joseph A. Jarreau and Urban J. Roch patent a clockless time-switch to cut electricity and phone bills. The device uses two cylinders and a plunger with a thumb-screw to time descent and has been tested to switch off display-window lights and disconnect long distance calls after three minutes.
Victor T. J. Tlach, once Austrian consul in Cleveland, says Hitler will not last if the war drags on. He asserts the German people will turn against Hitler when they feel the pangs of hunger.
Spokane paper notes University of Chicago coach Clark Shaughnessy wins the sobbing letter prize from the Athletic Round Table for his prospect write up. He laments heavy alumni gifts and great players with high costs and a tough game plan in a humorous callout.
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