Final Rout

What may be the last college football season of the war ended last Saturday as one of the weirdest. Upsets had become so routine that only one major team in the land remained undefeated and untied: Tulsa University's Hurricanes.

> At Athens, Ga., in a feudin' atmosphere that made the Hatfields and McCoys seem like good neighbors, the University of Georgia made a ramblin' wreck of Georgia Tech (34-to-0), blasting its dream of an undefeated season--just as its own dream had been blasted by belittled Auburn the week before. The Georgia team immediately turned down a bid to the nearby Sugar Bowl at New Orleans, accepted a bid to the Rose Bowl at Pasadena.

>At Boston, in one of the biggest upsets in a decade, a hell-bent-for-larceny Holy Cross eleven shoved its old and powerful rival, Boston College, out of the undefeated ranks (55-to-12), gloatingly robbing it of its bid to the Sugar Bowl. (Instead, Sugar Bowl promoters invited the Tulsa Hurricanes to meet the once-beaten University of Tennessee.)

>At Annapolis, in a wartime version of the once glamorous Army-Navy game, an underdog Navy team routed the touted Army, 14-to-0. Shifted from Philadelphia's vast Municipal Stadium (capacity: 102,000) to little Thompson Field (capacity: 22,000), tickets were limited to people living within ten miles of Annapolis' State House. To take the place of the Army cadets, denied transportation from West Point, half the Annapolis student body was delegated to cheer for the Army. With fingers crossed, they fulfilled their assignment for a while. But when the midshipmen began to tear the Army apart, they showed their true colors.

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