Football

The football season always begins like a detective story. You know that one of these teams is going to commit a series of murders--but which? They are passed before your scrutiny, and for a while you are encouraged to suspect each in turn.

Nebraska pulled a bread-knife out of its jersey and poked at the red jugular of Illinois--Harold Grange. Thumped, tumbled, jostled, sat upon, he was taken out of the game in the fourth quarter largely through the efforts of Captain Edward Weir, ail-American Nebraska tackle. Score: Nebraska 14, Illinois 0.

Only the adept passing of Jake Slagle, Princeton halfback, sent against Amherst after a scoreless first half, prevailed to beat off the thrusts of Drew, huge Amherst Negro. Score: Princeton 20, Amherst 0.

Harvard slopped cautiously through a wet game to beat Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 18-6.

A Yale team, which also managed to hold the ball despite its cbvious need for water-wings, gave Middlebury a severe ducking, 53-0.

Shouting the names of Aulich, Schimetitsch, Kirchmeyer and Wiberg, the Columbia cheering section, supported by a large turnout of oi-polloi, saw its team squash Johns Hopkins, 47-0.

Eleven loveless Cornell honeymooners demonstrated once more that Niagara falls. Score: Cornell 26, Niagara 0.

Bowdoin was not expected to be a knot in the Williams schedule, but all that Williams could do was tie it, 6-6.

Under the bludgeonings of the Syracuse second team, Vermont retired, bloody and also bowed. Score: Syracuse 26, Vermont 0.

Iowa State sent its forward passes winging against Wisconsin like a swarm of bees, but stingless, for line plunges by backs Radke, Crofoot and the brothers Harmon upset the hive. Score : Wisconsin 30, Iowa State 0

Northwestern pried open its season and South Dakota's line, in a somewhat awkward game to win 14 to 0.

The Navy, coached by John Owsley, late of Yale, showed great improvement over its form this time a year ago, by beating William and Mary soundly despite able stratagems by the latter's quarterback, a Japanese named Matsu. Score: 25 to 0.

The Army took Detroit into camp 31 to 6.