Football

Arriving in Pittsburgh for the most important game of the week, Notre Dame's Coach Heartly ("Hunk") Anderson gave a satisfied sniff. Reporters asked him why. Said Coach Anderson: "The weather . . . it's nice, and that's all we ask." Nice weather was all that Notre Dame got. A crowd of 65,000, biggest of the week, watching two undefeated teams each with a chance for the championship of the U. S., saw the most surprising upset of the season so far, Pitt 12, Notre Dame 0.

Pitt's two touchdowns came in two minutes, early in the last quarter. This was after the seasoned Notre Dame team, which had scored a point a minute against its first three opponents, had spent the early part of the game throwing ineffectual passes and trying to find an alignment of backs that could gain consistently on the ground. A Notre Dame punt went to Pitt's 26-yd. line. Left Halfback Warren Heller carried the ball 8 yd. around end. Right Halfback Mike Sebastian went through tackle for six more. Fullback Izzy Weinstock punched 15 yd. through a gap in the left side of the Notre Dame line. On the next play, Sebastian faked a pass, cut for the west sidelines, reversed his field, scampered 45 yd. for a touchdown. Pitt kicked off. Koken dropped back to try a pass for Notre Dame. Dailey, 165-Ib. Pittsburgh end, caught it on Notre Dame's 17-yd. line and dodged through dazzled and disorganized opposition till he reached the end-zone. It was the first beating that Pitt has given Notre Dame in a six-year rivalry. It caused this year's Pitt team to be compared to the Pitt team of 1916, which averaged a point every two minutes through a whole season.

Ignorant bookmakers offered to bet 40 to 1 that Michigan, Western Conference leader, would beat Princeton at Ann Arbor. Princeton recovered a fumble on Michigan's 16-yd. line and turned it into a touchdown in the second quarter; Michigan's only score in the half was a safety when Bales was tackled in his end-zone. After the half, Michigan's defense tightened. Michigan's centre, Bernard, fell on a rolling ball for one touchdown and lantern-jawed Harry Newman completed his only pass of the game for another. Michigan 14, Princeton 7.

The University of California at Los Angeles which started to play Conference football in 1928, played it without brilliant success until this season. Against Oregon, three weeks ago, the last play of the game was a 75-yd. run for a touchdown which won for U. C. L. A., 12 to 7. Against Stanford last week, Verdi Boyer, California reserve guard, blocked two punts that brought two touchdowns that gave Stanford its second thrashing in two weeks, 13 to 6, before a crowd of 55,000 at Los Angeles.

Last fortnight Tulane's Captain Felts was ruled ineligible because he played professional baseball before going to college. Last week there were rumors that Tennessee's bowlegged halfbreed Indian Halfback Beattie Feathers had played more baseball last summer than Southern Conference rules allow. Against Duke, Feathers scored both the touchdowns which, with Wynn's field goal to break a tie in the last three minutes, kept Tennessee's record intact, 16 to 13.

Dartmouth has played Yale off & on for 48 years without winning once, but this year there seemed to be a chance. In four starts, Yale had not won a game. In the Yale Bowl, where the jinx against Dartmouth is strongest, Yale squeaked through on Callan's touchdown, 6 to 0.

Infuriated to find that a jeer popular in the Midwest--"Pooh-pooh-Purdue"--had reached Manhattan, Purdue gave N. Y. U. its most thorough drubbing since 1924, 34 to 9.

Navy's Hawaiian-Chinese Halfback Gordon Chung-hoon, who learned to punt barefooted, twice kicked out of danger inside Navy's 5-yd. line. Twice he got no chance, when Penn was scoring the touchdowns that won, 14 to 0.

Martial music by 18 bands pleased and excited Nashville's biggest football crowd (25,000) while Dixie Roberts ran for one Vanderbilt touchdown and passed for the other that beat Georgia Tech, 12 to 0.

At Minneapolis, Northwestern's Right Halfback Pug Rentner ran into Minnesota's Left Halfback Pug Lund, who passed to Tenner for a touchdown, 7 to 0.

Colgate, with a good chance to be the East's only undefeated, untied team this year, took its sixth game in a row, from Penn State, 31 to 0.

Against Chicago, which was beginning to believe it had a chance for the Big Ten championship, Illinois won its first conference game since 1930, 13 to 7.

With two minutes to play and the score tied, Auburn's Captain Jimmie Hitchcock threw a pass to Allen Rogers who ran 66 yd. for the touchdown that finished Mississippi, 14 to 7.

Biggest score in a week-end of minor games on the Pacific Coast was California's 38 to 0, against Nevada.

In a dull, well-played game between Columbia and Cornell, there were two exciting moments: one when Montgomery, fresh at the start of the game, shot a 30-yd. pass to Matal, who carried it for a touchdown; and one when Montgomery, with an injured leg, was sent back in the last quarter to kick out of danger from behind Columbia's goalline. The kick traveled 68 yd., kept Columbia's 6-to-0 lead safe till the game was over.

Brown, fresh from beating Yale, rattled off two long touchdown marches against Harvard, 14 to 0, caused Providence journalists to dig up a joke they had not used since 1926, about the old brown juggernaut.

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