Football

Two championships were decided last week--one by the series of precise passes with which Alabama swept down a field in Birmingham to win its seventh game and the championship of the South by beating Georgia 27 to 0; and one by the sportsmanlike action of Northwestern in conceding to Michigan the "Big Ten" title for which the two had tied. And in Manhattan, under a sky of pewter, with a brass band playing for the march and countermarch of little figures in grey and little figures in blue, the Army beat the Navy 10 to 3 in the game that ended the season.

During the course of the autumn the Notre Dame team has traveled 7,500 miles to play seven games. Travel-weary, game-weary, it lined up against Nebraska and was beaten, partly by its own faulty passing, partly by Nebraska's alert secondary defense, and partly by the punting of the opposing Captain, Edward Weir. Score: Nebraska 17, Notre Dame 0.

Eleven hungry Penn Statesmen went to Pittsburgh for a Thanksgiving dinner only to have their goose roundly cooked for them. Score: Pittsburgh 23, Penn State 7.

With a rapid pickup, a lean chassis, and no brakes, smooth-running Carr of Syracuse jeered at the shaky semaphores which Columbia propped in his path; supplied all the locomotion, his team needed to win, 16 to 5.

Those who thought that Brown would be so much cream on Colgate's brush owned their error when they saw Jackson Keefer bend even such stiff bristles as the redoubtable Eddie Tryon for gain after gain. Even after Keefer was taken out with a broken rib, Brown stuck to its color. Score: Brown 14, Colgate 14.

We play rough!

We play tough!

We play football and we never get enough!

The cheering section of Lincoln (Negro) urged on its team with a sentiment which was jubilantly re-echoed and even carried into active demonstration by a grandstand full of strutting rooters who, in iridescent habiliments, had come from miles around to see that college play Howard (Negro) in Philadelphia. Score: Lincoln 0, Howard 0.

Al Kreuz of Kalamazoo is not a star football player but he is a good capable back, and he and his Pennsylvania teammates managed, by turning alertness into good luck, to beat a Cornell team, which ponderously and futilely outplayed them. Score: Pennsylvania 7, Cornell 0.

The Golden Whales of Southern California larruped and flapped their fins in the crisp surge sent against them by Washington State --in vain, for four big breakers from the Washington backfield crashed over the tideline once, twice , , , Score: Washington State 17, Southern California 12.

A blocked kick, a fumble, an intercepted pass, and the hard little beans of Boston College popped through the pork of Holy Cross to engrave another victory on their silver plate. Score: Boston 17, Holy Cross 6.

The Navy sang "Anchors Aweigh"; the Army demanded:

"Sons of Slum and Gravy,

Will you let the Navy

Take from us a victory?"

One son of Slum, Left End Baxter, raced around the Navy end for a touchdown; another, one Reeder, was haled into the game to kick a field goal. Score: Army 10, Navy 3.