Football

Southern California 47, Pitt 14. That score, in 1930, was the most one-sided Tournament of Roses game on record until last week, when another Pitt team, out for revenge, went West to play Southern California again.

Homer Griffith of U. S. C. tossed a 33-yd. touchdown pass to Ford Palmer in the first quarter but the game did not really turn into a rout till after the half. Bright's pass to Griffith for a touchdown started it in the third quarter. In the fourth, Warburton's two touchdowns and another by Barber, when Coach Howard Jones had sent in his reserves, rolled up the new record--Southern California 35, Pitt 0.

With the increasing popularity of post-season games, football seasons have been growing steadily longer. Football has also been growing steadily more complex. Said Coach Gilmour ("Gloomy Gil") Dobie of Cornell to members of the American Football Coaches' Association meeting in Manhattan last week:

"It has all arrived at the stage now where we have on our hands a game so big, so vast, so unwieldy it is almost impossible for an organization of college boys to handle it. . . . It's almost a full season's job for the players to learn the rules. . . ."

To succeed Dr. Marvin Allen Stevens as president, the Association elected fat Dan McGugin who has been coach at Vanderbilt since 1904. To succeed Dr. Stevens as coach of Yale's football teams, the Yale Athletic Association last week chose Reginald Root, who coached Yale's freshmen teams last autumn, spent two years before that teaching football at the University of Mexico. Reginald Root entered Yale from Hotchkiss in 1922, helped pay his expenses by washing dishes, which he says was good football training because it taught him not to drop things. He played tackle on the Yale teams of 1924 & 1925. was graduated with honors, took football to Mexico--where Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair helped pay his salary and the expenses of the team. Now 29, Coach Root is also an instructor in political economy, a fellow of Calhoun College (unit in Yale's new house plan).

The Coaches' Association was one of several governing organizations of collegiate sport which forgathered last week in Manhattan. Members of the Society of Directors of Physical Education in Colleges were told by Athletic Director Hugo Bezdek of Penn State that "we should not find ourselves in the position of placing the maintenance of physical education on gate receipts from football. . . ." The Sportsmanship Brotherhood gave a luncheon and a medal to famed, retired old Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg of Chicago. The National Collegiate Athletic Association met to hear Dr. Steadman Vincent Sanford. president of the University of Georgia, advocate taking athletic ability into consideration in granting scholarships "in terms of the rules and regulations that govern the appointment of Rhodes Scholars;" to elect Walter R. Okeson of Lehigh to replace the late Edward K. Hall as chairman of its Football Rules Committee which meets in February.

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