Football

The move to make football combat Depression reached official status last week when Owen D. Young, chairman of the President's committee to mobilize relief resources, asked all U. S. football-playing colleges to devote the receipts of one game, regular or postseason, to unemployment relief. In the East, two football "tournaments" were organized.

Said Owen D. Young: "This is about the only kind of thing which the students of our schools and colleges can do to aid in the work. . . . The precedent of responding to . . . a national emergency is a good one, and ordinary rules should give way in the face of it. . . ."

Most notable opposition to the Young Plan for football came from Harvard, where the undergraduate Crimson congratulated President Abbot Lawrence Lowell on his refusal to have a Harvard team participate in a round-robin tournament. Countered the Yale Daily News: "Harvard's refusal . . . although defensible, is not understandable. It is certainly a great shame. . . ."

The Yale varsity, generally considered to be suffering from too many coaches, journeyed to Chicago, a record distance for Yale. There they played one of the week's biggest games against a Chicago team coached by grizzled, 69-year-old Amos Alonzo Stagg, who was Yale All-American end in 1888 and whose son Paul was in the Chicago lineup. Yale's famed little Albie Booth played only two quarters but gave Midwestern Yale men their money's worth by gaining 37 yd. in scrimmage, running punts back 20 yd., intercepting two passes, dropkicking with precision. He let burly Tommy Taylor carry the ball on power plays but did most of Yale's passing with the clipped, short-arm motion and long follow-through taught Yale backs this year by Benny Friedman. One of Booth's passes sailed 35 yd., was caught by Herster Barres for a touchdown. Another pass and two long marches made the other three touchdowns that gave Yale the game, 27 to o. Between the halves, Chicago alumni gave Coach Stagg a "C" blanket with 40 stars because he has been Chicago's football coach for 40 years.

In Los Angeles, 50,000 people saw an extraordinarily powerful Southern California attack, headed by Gaius Shaver and Orv Mohler who made two touchdowns each, mow and shave Oregon, 53 to o.

The biggest game crowd of the week-end--70,000--was at the Ohio State- Michigan game. Michigan was good enough to tie the score at one touchdown each in the second period. But after the half, Carroll and Cramer of Ohio State were good enough to score twice against Michigan. The ball was back on the Michigan 13-yd. line when the game ended, 20 to 7.

Harvard had never lost a game at West Point but no Harvard team had played there since 1910, when an Army player named Byrne had his neck broken in a scrimmage. In the first period, Army scored twice and some of the "townies" who watch Army's home games from trees overlooking Michie Stadium, climbed down and went home. In the second period, Harvard's facile Barry Wood began to throw the passes for which he is more famed than his equally expert tennis, his scholastic rank (top of his class). Crickard caught one of them for a touchdown, White caught another for another touchdown. After the first, Wood fumbled the pass from centre but picked the ball up and tore around left end, instead of kicking, for the extra point. That point eventually won the game for Harvard, 14 to 13, but not until, in the last period, Wood had made one other brilliant run--to catch Army's Halfback Paul Johnson who had the ball and a clear field when Wood tackled him from behind on Harvard's 25-yd. line.

At Knoxville, Gene McEver, Tennessee's bid for this year's Ail-American team, made three touchdowns which helped put Alabama out of the running for the Southern Conference championship, 25 to 0.

In the most surprising upset of the season so far, Columbia's line held against Dartmouth's Bill Morton and Bill McCall. Hewitt did much of the Columbia gaining but a new sophomore named Clifford Montgomery made two of the touchdowns, Red Matal the other. It was Columbia's most important victory in 16 years. Score: 19 to 6.

Against a Princeton team which appeared sluggish in the first half and pathetically weak in the second, Cornell's Viviano. Ferraro and Capt. Chris Martinez-Zorrilla pounced on fumbles, blocked kicks, intercepted passes and won, with ludicrous, humiliating ease, 33 to 0.

Florida ran into a hurricane at Syracuse, lost, in rain that made the ball as slippery as an orange seed, 33 to 12.

Notre Dame used more than five complete teams (57 players), made up for last fortnight's tie with Northwestern by making ducks of Drake, 63 to 0.

In the best intersectional game of the week, Ken Meenan, Northwestern's 190-lb. sophomore halfback, tore wide holes in a University of California, Los Angeles, line, scored two of the three touchdowns that gave Northwestern the game by a score --19 to 0--which did not do justice to Northwestern superiority.

Jack Grossman has been a football star at little Rutgers for the last three years. His brother, Nat, may be a star at big N. Y. U. for the next three. Last week they played against each other for the first time. Nat had the stronger team but Jack, who finds football a bore and only plays it, he says, for personal glory, seemed to be the better of the two. He scored the first touchdown made against N. Y. U. this year, put so much punch in the Rutgers secondary defense that N. Y. U. was lucky to win with four touchdowns, one of them made by Nat, 27 to 7.

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