Viva Krautclouters!

Hot dogs were plentiful, two 56-piece bands blared, a barelegged drum majorette shivered and strutted, two queens held court at halftime. Italy's Spaghetti Bowl football game at Florence last week (attendance: 25,000) had all the trimmings of any superduper New Year's Day bowl game--and an extra fillip in a cover of P-38s, precaution against a threatened visit from the Luftwaffe.

The intramural offensive was sparked by 230-lb. Corporal John Moody of the Fifth Army Krautclouters, onetime Negro All-America fullback at Atlanta's Morris Brown College.

Early in the game, "Big Train" galloped 50 yds. in three plays for a touchdown, later intercepted a pass for another, kicked two points after touchdowns, did the punting as well as most of the running. Halfback Private Frank Buel of Nutley, N.J. pitched a fourth-period pass to End Lieut. Art Lemke, a former Georgetown University footballer, for another six-pointer. Final score: Fifth Army 20, Twelfth Air Force 0. The overhead sideshow was called off when the Germans failed to show up.

Other Bowl mixups : Southern California swamped Tennessee, 25-to-0, in the Rose Bowl; Duke squeezed by Alabama, 29-to-26, in the Sugar Bowl; Tulsa took Georgia Tech, 26-to-12, in the Orange Bowl; Oklahoma A. & M. squashed Texas Christian, 34-to-0, in the Cotton Bowl.

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