Monday, Oct. 20, 1924
Football
Cornell's high-powered, underslung applecart had, up to last week, trundled through three seasons and two games without lurching. Then along came Williams--in particular Left End Ide of Williams. The Big Red applecart took a lurch, a swerve, a jolt on the thank-you-ma'm, and lumbered off the road 7 to 14. Ide, scion of Troy, N. Y., collar-makers, scored both Williams' touchdowns, one by whisking up a fumble, one by fastening on a pass. Cornell, fast and brawny, fumbled five times; Williams, fast and brainy, worked smoothly.
At Annapolis, another capsizing occurred. Marquette cruised all the way from Milwaukee and blew the Navy out of water, 21 to 3. Navy led until the second half, when the Milwaukeans took turns scampering to the Navy goal. Skemp scampered 45 yards, McCormick 65, Dilweg 75.
Princeton had little joy of her guests from Lehigh. Large fellows, they kept their goal line inaccessible and would have crossed Princeton's had Right End Burke not stepped out of bounds on a longish run. The scoreless tie made it obvious that Princeton could neither drop-kick nor punt.
Had it occurred to Quarterback Moore of Georgia to drop-kick from the 17-yard line in the last period, Yale might not have squeaked through 7 to 6. But Moore forgot or disdained or just did not know. He passed, was beaten. The Georgia running attack was superb. For Yale, Halfback Cottle passed, plowed, scored.
Harvard's game with Middlebury was reminiscent of the 6-to-6 tie that stuck in the Crimson craw last year. Captain Klevenow, of the Vermonters, missed his try for goal, however, and Rogers and Gherke gathered belated points for Harvard. Score: Harvard, 16; Middlebury, 6.
During Dartmouth's 38-to-0 seige upon Vermont, Halfback Oberlander transported the ball for a total of 200 yards, scored four of six touchdowns. When he runs, Oberlander puts 197 pounds in rapid motion.
Syracuse roughed and tumbled about with William and Mary, won 24 to 7, but lost the services of Halfback Bowman, the fleet "Chet" Bowman who ran for the U. S. in Colombes Stadium last July. Tackled violently, Bowman left the field "indefinitely," his neck and shoulders damaged.
From behind a forward wall which clicked into side formations at a signal, Chicago smashed and smashed at Brown, rammed home 19 points to 7 with straight football. A blocked kick led to Brown's score, but a flight of passes failed to add to it. This was the first "big intersectional game."
In the one Western Conference game of the week, Ohio State and Iowa spent an afternoon bunting, barging, bucking, kicking, passing--and the score was 0-0. Michigan University and the Michigan Aggies seemed about to come to a like concluson when, as dusk came down, a 33-yard pass shot into Aggie territory, a Michigan end touched down.
Illinois pulled herself together and swamped Butler 40 to 10, Halfback McIlwain looking almost the man his captain, Red Grange, is. Grange played 16 minutes, scored 12 points.
Northwestern and her lusty Ralph Baker took 42 points from Cincinnati.
On the Pacific Coast, where football championships are celebrated by burning up great pyramids of pine trees, California set about her season by letting Pomona off at 28 to 0.
Oregon was even gentler with Pacific, 20 to 0. Washington State amassed the week's largest total, 55 points gathered to the acute discomfort of Whitman.
Southward, Vanderbilt wrenched this way and that at the Quantico Marines but could not break a 13-to-13 tie. Alabama descended vigorously upon Mississippii, 51 to 0. Virginia, a promising combination, subdued Randolph-Macon, 26 to 6.
Louisiana journeyed up to Indianapolis and trailed behind Indiana throughout a featureless first half. Then she rose in her strength, burst through, won 20 to 14. This was another "first big intersectional game."