Football

In giving the Yale varsity practice against Army formations, the Yale scrub squad assumed the names of Army players. But no scrub could have impersonated Halfback Jack Buckler vividly enough to prepare Yale for what the real Buckler did last week. Repeatedly swift-footed Buckler took the ball on the run, drew back his arm as if to pass. While the Yale defense scattered. Buckler might streak around end. Or he might pass, while sprinting like a jackrabbit. Seven times his passes plumped into Army hands for total gains of 148 yd. Twice they made touchdowns and once they carried the Army within plunging distance of another. Between times Buckler kicked superbly, once sent a punt sailing and rolling 87 yd. Army's hard-charging line, marvelously made from raw material this season, was alternately a stone wall and a steamroller. The decisiveness of Army's victory null caused many a dopester to wager it would go through the season undefeated (by Harvard, Navy, Notre Dame).

Writing for the newspapers, Notre Dame's Coach "Hunk" Anderson pre dicted the winners of 14 games last week, including Pittsburgh to beat Notre Dame. Coach Anderson erred in only one choice, but it was not Pittsburgh. Pitt struck two fast, staggering blows in the second period: a 78-yd. run to touchdown by Halfback Sebastian, and a crushing march through the line for another. Twice in the second half Notre Dame fought to Pitt's 8-yd. line, lacked the punch to change the score, 14-to-0.

California would rather beat Southern California than any other team in the U. S., including her older but less bitter rival Stanford. Last week California started to do so (for the first time since 1929) by popping a dropkick" over the U. S. C. goal in the first period. For three periods California held that lead. Then the U. S. C. line forced a hole barely big enough for a wiry little quarterback named Irvine Warburton to wriggle through. He scampered this way and that for 60 yd., through the whole California team, outdistanced the last tackier, 6-to-3.

Michigan, marching confidently again toward the Big Ten championship, got scant interference from Chicago, 28-to-0.

With a six-point lead Navy had to fight Penn every inch of the way through a helter-skelter game in which players stumbled with the ball, fumbled at critical moments, crashed into each other. In the last minutes of play Navy intercepted a Penn pass for a second touchdown, null Northwestern's Halfback Leeper showed bad judgment when he picked up an Ohio State punt instead of letting it roll across his own goal line. He was tackled hard. He fumbled. Ohio State's Quarterback Pincura fell on the ball for a touchdown. In the next period a Northwestern pass from centre bounced off the shoulder of Northwestern's fullback. In a flash Ohio's Right End Gillman had the ball, raced 43 yd. for the second touchdown. Ohio State's victory (12-to-0) silenced, momen tarily at least, alumni mutterings against Coach Sam Willaman.

Restless spectators moved toward the exits and Harvard rooters began celebrating a 7-to-0 victory over Dartmouth as the game drew into its final two minutes. Then a Dartmouth substitute halfback named Bill Clark ripped through tackle, tore 56 yd. to a touchdown. Another substitute, Don Hagerman, coolly kicked the extra point, and Dartmouth squeaked back into the season's undefeated list, 7-to-7.

In a furious battle between linemen who charged like bulls and tackled like demons, Fordham managed to beat Alabama by blocking a kick for a safety, 2-to-0.

Using only eleven players (as did Oregon State when it held Southern California to a scoreless tie last fortnight) Washington erased Stanford from the undefeated list with two place-kicks by Left End Bill Smith. 6-to-0.

Syracuse saw much more than it wanted of a Michigan State halfback named Kurt Warmbein, who had most to do with giving Syracuse a 27-to-3 lacing.

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