Football

With the most imposing three-season record in football history--25 victories, one tie, no defeats-at South Bend. Ind., in the new brick stadium dedicated to late great Coach Knute Kenneth Rockne (see p. 40), Notre Dame played the team that was the last to beat it, husky, well-trained Southern California. In the second period, Notre Dame made its first touchdown. After a 55-yd. march, Fullback Joe Banas leaped over the scrimmage and across the goal line. In the second half, Notre Dame received the kickoff and scored again, in four plays. This time, Halfback Marchmont Schwartz, whose mother named him for a racehorse, made the touchdown, after Banas had advanced 37 yd. on a lateral pass play. Place kicks by Quarterback Jaskwhich scored both extra points.

The score was still 14 to 0 at the beginning of the last quarter. Southern California had the ball on Notre Dame's 16-yd. line -the result of a penalty on Notre Dame for interference, plus a lateral pass and plays against the left side of the Notre. Dame line, plus a stunning burst of determination. Gaius ("Gus") Shaver, Southern California's 185-lb. towheaded quarterback from Azusa, Calif., made a first down on the 16-yd. line. After Sparling made an 11yd. gain around left end, Shaver smashed through to touchdown behind a massed shift.

Halfway through the quarter, another penalty for interference, on a pass from Mohler to Shaver, gave Southern California the ball on Notre Dame's 24-yd. line. In three plays Mohler & Shaver carried the ball to the loyd. line for another first down. This time Mohler dropped back and threw a lateral to Shaver who, circling his own left end, made 10 yd. and a touchdown, dragging a Notre Dame tackier across the goal line. When Baker, whose try for extra point after Southern California's first touchdown had been blocked, kicked the goal, it made the score Notre Dame 14, Southern California 13.

What happened after that was so rapid, so out of keeping with what usually happens in Notre Dame games that 52,000 spectators who saw it found it hard to believe. Shaver threw two passes-one of 50 yd. to Sparling, another 23 yd. to Hall. Two downs later the ball was only 2 yd. nearer the goal. There were 60 seconds of the game left. Notre Dame, expecting another pass, saw Southern California's placekicker, Johnny Baker drop back to the 23-yd. line, saw the ball sail over the line of scrimmage, between the goal posts, win the game for Southern California, 16 to 14.

It was the fourth time that Albert James ("Mighty Atom") Booth had played in a game against Harvard. As captain of Yale's freshmen he had seen his team beaten 7 to 6. In 1929 and 1930 he had been on losing Yale varsities. Last week, in the soth Harvard-Yale game,

--Michigan's record from 1901 to 1905-55 victories, one tie, one defeat (2 to 0), by Chicago-was made against inferior opposition.

Booth tried to dropkick on the Harvard 14-yd. line early in the second quarter. A dejected little fellow, his mouth wide open, his eyes squinting, he watched his kick veer outside the east goalpost.

It was not, apparently, a good day for Booth. He had not distinguished himself on the sensational first play of the game when, after catching Yale's kickoff, Wood had made a lateral pass to Crickard and Crickard had straight-armed Booth on Yale's 35-yd. line, reached the 7-yd. line before Right End Herster Barres forced him out of bounds. Booth had been unable to shake himself loose through Harvard's heavy, alert line. Yale's most spectacular plays were the booming punts of Quarterback Dud Parker; Harvard's the quick kicks of Barry Wood, with Crickard holding the ball knee-high close to the line of scrimmage, a play which

Coach Casey learned from Coach Jim Marks of Kiskiminetas School.

Two of Parker's punts-to the 7-yd. line, then to the 3-yd. line-kept Harvard bottled up at the beginning of the fourth quarter, which was more than half over when Jack Crickard broke loose and made the longest scrimmage run of the game, 28-yd. to midfield. On fourth down, Wood dropped back to punt but Tom Hawley, substitute Yale end, blocked the kick and fell on it on Harvard's 44-yd. mark. Booth, who had been out of the game through the third quarter, knew it was his last chance. He gained six yards running, then threw a long, oblique pass to Barres which the Yale end caught over his shoulder on Harvard's 15-yd. line, 3 yd. before he was tackled. The splendid Harvard line held again, for three downs. On the fourth with 5 yd. to go, Atom Booth did the only thing there was left. He dropped back to the 11-yd. line slightly east of the centre of the field, tried one more dropkick. Mouth open, eyes squinting, Booth watched the ball sail neatly between the goalposts.

A few moments later the game ended. Yale 3, Harvard 0.

Biggest crowd of the week-90,000-shivered on a raw windy day in Palo Alto, while California played Stanford. Left Halfback Hank Schaldach did most of the work-four line plunges, a pass, two drives of 5 yd. each and one more plunge across the goal line-in the 35-yd. march that won for California, for the first time in seven years, 6 to 0.

At Manhattan's Polo Grounds Bucknell beat a previously undefeated Fordham team 14 to 13, on Tony Mezza's placekick after touchdown, became the only undefeated team in the East. After the game, three Fordham players-John Szymanski, substitute tackle, Cornelius Murphy, whose place he had taken, and Right Guard Howell-were taken to the hospital, suffering from brain concussion.

Coach Dick Hanley of Northwestern was unable to rest his regulars and beat Iowa with his reserves, as he had planned before the game. After a touchdown--6 points--in the first period, Iowa stopped Rentner, Russell, Potter & Moore, held Northwestern, champions apparent of the Western, Conference, till the last quarter. Then Rentner and Olson broke through, brought the score to 19 to o.

Lehigh and Lafayette have consecutively played more football games against each other than any other U. S, colleges. They played their 65th last week. Lafayette won, with two touchdowns in the last half to Lehigh's one in the first, 13 to 7-In a drizzle at New Orleans, Tulane's substitutes, aided by Left Halfback Don Zimmerman, who made two touchdowns, swamped Sewanee, 40 to 0.

A successful football season at Columbia has meant, for the last 15 years, one in which the team won one of its three or four major games. This year, Columbia beat Dartmouth and Brown and five others; gave Cornell a hard fight, finished off last week by tying Syracuse, 0 to 0, in a game which Syracuse had three good chances to lose.

Captained by one "Alabama" Pitts and composed mainly of burglars, a team representing Sing Sing Prison played a team representing the Port Jervis, N. Y. Police Department, composed of farmers, soda-jerkers, railroad workers, salesmen and other "ringers" from the Port Jervis A. C. football team who had been sworn into the police department just before the game. Among the 7,000 spectators were 13 real Port Jervis policemen. They heard the prison band play its anthems, "Wonderful Mother of Mine," "Just One More Chance." The police retorted with their own slogan: "You can't win!", saw Sing Sing unfairly beaten, 13 to 0.

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