Roses with Thorns

Come anything short of a Jap invasion, there will be a Rose Bowl game at Pasadena this year. But it may be shorn of geographical significance. The Pacific Coast Conference, Rose Bowl host, automatically picks its own conference champion (probably Washington State this year) to represent the West. But this year's present two top-ranking Eastern teams--Georgia Tech and Boston College--hail from some 3,000 miles away and may not be permitted to travel across the continent just to make a football holiday. Possible alternate: the University of Tulsa.

New Orleans, by contrast with Pasadena, is far happier about the prospect of its Sugar Bowl game on New Year's Day. Georgia Tech is reasonably near New Orleans. Boston College, only other big-time college team still undefeated and untied, is at least not at the opposite end of the continent. Though B.C. has one more game (against Holy Cross), Sugar Bowl promoters have already whispered sweet nothings into the ears of Coach Denny Myers.

Another team, the University of Georgia, is not yet crossed off the Sugar Bowl list. Last week Auburn, a supposed pushover, stalled Georgia's famed steam roller, pushed it out of the undefeated ranks, 27-to-13. But in their home stadium this Saturday, Georgia's Bulldogs will have a chance to redeem themselves by knocking off Georgia Tech.

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