Football

Football writers are sentimental artists who enjoy calling things what they are not. Thus they speak of the Princeton team as "Tigers," though no live, wild tiger has been seen near New Jersey for many millions of years and they refer to the team which plays for the University of Nebraska as "Cornhuskers," merely for want of a better name. Last week, Coach Bearg and the Nebraska squad boarded a special train for West Point; on the squad were 34 men, though one of them, Willard Urban, who lost a coin toss to be the last man taken, had his fare paid by friends. The newspapers of Lincoln, Neb., printed advertisements saying "Beat the Army," Nebraska's Governor sent a telegram; a great parade of students moved through the streets; the noise of the train as it pulled out of Lincoln was not so loud as the noise made by those who watched it go; a day later the team got off at Albion College, Mich., and practiced. The Cornhuskers then proceeded to West Point--an unbeaten team.

Blue Howell, 185 pounds, one of the lightest men on the Nebraska team, was supposed to have been going to a duel with "Red" Cagle, the Army's unkind star. As it turned out, neither he nor Fay Russell, the 205 pound quarterback, who has a wife and ranch of his own, damaged the Army. Nor was Clair Sloan, who has not missed a kick for point after touchdown since the season began, able by himself to win, though he kicked a field goal in the second period and nearly kicked another to tie the score in the third. In the last quarter Allan, an Army substitute, grabbed a forward pass and made the second touchdown for the Army. The final score was 13--3. Vice President Dawes, in a fur-lined coat, let out a dignified yelp and the people who listened to their radios in Nebraska clicked them off, with forlorn disappointment, in their chilly parlors.

Eastern rivalries grow pale beside the gargantuan wars of colleges that lie behind the Rocky Mountains. California and Stanford are two giants who ravage the countryside and then clash together. Last week, before the game, Stanford had won 15 of these clashes and California 12. California rapidly scored 13 points; after the half, Simkins made a touchdown for Stanford; in the last minute Frentrup of Stanford made another. The giants had played their seventh tie.

Before the Harvard game it is customary for Yale to have a football rally and at this football rally it is customary for all Yale undergraduates to yell and cheer. This year, however, only 500 were gathered together in the name of Yale. President James Rowland Angell, having campaigned so vigorously and with such notable success for Herbert Hoover, apparently supposed that his moral support might also take happy effect upon the football team. "The bigger they come, the harder they fall," he said. Then Tad Jones, onetime Yale coach, spoke scornfully of the decline of the Yale spirit and the growth of wisdom. With tears in his eyes he described the undergraduates who were not present as "yellow" and he asked. "What has become of the old Yale spirit . . . perhaps they are too cultured to come here. . . ." President Angell gave nod: of gloom.

Whether the decline of the old Yale spirit or the superiority of the Harvard lateral pass play was chiefly responsible for the latter's victory, it is impossible to say. The score was 17--o, with honors to Harvard's Guarnaccia & French.

Dr. John Woodworth Wilce, Coach or Ohio State, last week ran toward a tackling dummy and sprang to drag it off its runner; that was "his senior tackle" an Ohio State ceremony performed by men who are leaving the team, on the last day of practice. The next day, he lost his last chance to win the Big Ten or Western Conference championship as Illinois scored eight points in the first half and then held on while returns from other conference games flashed up along the Scoreboard. By beating Ohio State 8--0, Illinois became the Conference champion for the second successive year.

Al Lassman, N. Y. U. tackle, suffered a concussion while his team by 27--13 beat Carnegie Tech. Carnegie Tech had beaten Georgetown, which had beaten N. Y. U.

Southern California won the Pacific Coast Championship by mangling Idaho 28--7

Without the aid of little Coach Roper's cards to help them, Princeton's Wittmer and Miles and Requardt paused at crucial moments; "Whitey" Lloyd of the Navy did not, scoring a field goal from placement and a touchdown from Navy's 24 yard line. Thus Navy beat Princeton, which no other team has done this year, 9--0.

Dartmouth's Marsters was mastered by Yatz Levison of Northwestern to whose efforts Northwestern's 27--6 victory was largely due.