Sport: Football Review

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Except for a few games still to be played here & there, the U. S. college football season ended last week. Reviewing the season, most football students agreed that the No. 1 team of 1939 was Tennessee, undefeated, untied, unscored-on in nine games, while it rolled up a total of 205 points. Close on its cleated heels were Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College (Southwest Conference champion) and Cornell (pride of the Ivy League), both undefeated and untied, but scored-on. Powerful Southern California, undefeated but tied by Oregon, has yet to play the University of California at Los Angeles before it can clinch the Pacific Coast Conference championship, and a date at the Rose Bowl. Other football tops:

>Leading ground-gainer among college footballers was Michigan's big, well-nosed Tom Harmon. In eight games he totaled 1,356 yards (868 on the ground and 488 in the air) for an average 169 yards a game, average six yards a play.

>Though Harmon was the spectators' favorite, a nationwide poll of sportswriters voted Iowa's little Nile Clarke Kinnick the No. 1 player of the year. Grandson of onetime Governor George Clarke of Iowa, son of a onetime quarterback at Iowa State, and catcher for famed Bob Feller on a schoolboy baseball team in his hometown of Adel, Iowa, Halfback Kinnick, in an age when most footballers play only 30 minutes of a game, played the full 60 minutes in six tough games. His passing, punting, blocking, running sparked Iowa to win six of its eight games.