Football

Football attendance in the East is 20% lower this year than last. In the Midwest, it is 15% lower. On the Pacific Coast it is approximately unchanged. This is because Stanford, with what looks like a better team than any since 1926, has drawn bigger crowds than last year. Biggest crowd of last week--65,000--was at Palo Alto to watch Stanford play Southern California for the game that was likely to decide the Coast Conference Championship and perhaps--since Southern California is scheduled to play Notre Dame and Stanford to play Pitt--the mythical championship of the U. S. Southern California's acrimonious Coach Howard Jones told reporters he thought Stanford had been breaking the "in motion" rule, that he intended to have officials time Stanford backs with a stopwatch. Coach Glenn ("Pop") Warner of Stanford said he was agreeable if officials also saw to it that U. S. C. had seven men on the line of scrimmage when the ball was put in play.

Stanford, favorite at 3 to 2, started smartly. Left Halfback Sim scuttled around end 21 yd. and Stanford nudged at the Southern California goal from the 5-yd. line. Southern California took the ball on downs, by inches. It was Stanford's first and last chance to score. In the second period, a Southern California pass, McNeish to Palmer, from the 21-yd. line to the end zone, gave U. S. C. one touchdown. In the third period, another pass, Palmer from Clark, put Southern California inside Stanford's10-yd. line and two line plunges took the ball across. This time Ernie Smith's kick sailed between the posts. It was Southern California's 15th game in a row, 13 to 0.

Still waiting to win its first game of the year, Yale played a stubborn first quarter against Army. It was beginning to look like a close game when the youngest man on the Army team, First-Classman Felix Vidal, caught a Yale punt on his 28-yd. line and started to run along the left side of the field. Wriggling, darting, twisting along the sidelines, Yidal managed somehow to get through a swarm of Yale tacklers without stepping out of bounds. At midfield, he cut in, with both teams behind him, nothing to do but keep on running for a touchdown.

Yale's discouragement at what looked like a freak play was interrupted by another one. Jack Buckler, a Texas yearling substitute, slipped through left tackle, dodged what his interference had left of Yale's secondary defense, scuttled 67 yd. for Army's second touchdown. Still stubborn, Yale held Army for downs three times near the Yale goal line. The fourth time, in the last quarter, Buckler made Army's third touchdown in Yale's worst beating since 1926, 20 to 0.

Still waiting for an opponent to turn out not to be a setup, Notre Dame maintained its point a minute average for the season against Carnegie Tech, 42 to 0. This year's Notre Dame ("Fighting Irish") backfield: Vejar, Koken, Sheeketski, Banas.

Pitt, expecting a crowd of 75,000 at its game with Notre Dame next week, was disconcerted by what happened against Ohio State--a 0 to 0 tie, after Ohio State held for four downs on its 1-yd. line in the last two minutes.

Lantern-jawed Harry Newman, Michigan's forward passer, dropkicker and field general, made three touchdown passes and a 76-yd. run while his team was mopping up Illinois, 32 to 0.

An Auburn undertow cost Tulane's "Green Wave" its first game in the South for four years, 19 to 7.

Harry Wells' placekick in the second period, and small Carl Pescosolido's 93-yd. runback of the kickoff at the start of the second half gave Harvard the edge over Dartmouth, 10 to 7. In the last minute of the game, Dartmouth's Halfback Dave Hedges, uncovered in the Harvard end zone, juggled and dropped the pass that would have turned the edge the other way.

One thing that lessened the gloom of a rainy Iowa homecoming was Iowa's first touchdown against a Western Conference team in three years, while Minnesota was winning, 21 to 6.

Colgate, in new red trousers and with an appalling new name-- "Red Raiders of Chenango"--pumped short passes and well integrated ground plays at a N. Y. U. line that seemed to have a hinge in the middle, 14 to 0.

A scoreless tie is the most unsatisfactory score in football. Princeton had one against Cornell last fortnight. Last week it had another against Navy whose best kicking back is a tall, swarthy Chinese named Gordon Chung-hoon.

Paul Pardonner of Purdue last year kicked 13 out of 14 points after touchdown. Last week, against Northwestern, he kicked one in the third period that was a comfort in the last, when Northwestem's touchdown & goal tied the score, 7 to 7.

Onetime Navy Coach Bill Ingram took out California's triple-threat back Henry Schaldach and sent in a substitute named Arleigh Williams when Washington was a touchdown ahead. Williams did more than threaten. He went through centre for a touchdown, threw the pass for the point afterward that won, 7 to 6.

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