Football

"It's a good team. We've got a great back in Red Franklin, a fast, shifty, 160-lb. fellow who punts well and passes. The rest of the backs block for him. They average about 185 Ib. ... They had to be good to beat Washington State, San Francisco and hold Southern California to a scoreless tie. . . . The center, Clyde Devine, is 6 ft. 6 in. tall and weighs 191 Ib. The running guard who plays next to him is Vernon Wedin, eleven inches shorter and 190 Ib. in heft. They're a fine looking pair."

This description, by its Coach Alonzo Stiner, of the Oregon State team which last week arrived in Manhattan to play Fordham failed to do justice to its peculiarities. Young enough to be mistaken for one of his players. Coach Stiner, Nebraska tackle in 1925-26, has perfected a defense for passes so effective that Western teams have completed only four against Oregon State this year. The players who start the game finish it unless someone is severely hurt; in three successive games this season, Oregon State used only one substitute. Most eccentric of all Coach Stiner's notions is his defense against a point after touchdown. His two prodigious tackles, Harry Field (223 Ib.) and Adolphe Schwammel (214 Ib.), each seize one leg of huge Clyde Devine, hoist him into the air to block the kick (see cut). Against Oregon, the play worked well. Against Fordham last week, it worked again. After Red Franklin's amazing 93-yd. runback of the kickoff for a touchdown, Fordham marched steadily to a tying touchdown in the second period. Danowski dropped back to kick for the extra point. Huge Devine popped up like a jumping jack. Danowski's kick went wide. Last year, Fordham beat Oregon State 8-to-6. Last week's was the same kind of game, tight, almost flawless defensive football, with both teams sparring for breaks. The crowd of 40,000-one of the largest of a season which has brought Fordham $350,000 in gate receipts--thought the scoring was finished for the first half when, with a minute or so left to play, Oregon State's drive stopped at Fordham's 36-yd. line. On fourth down, Schwammel dropped back for a place kick. The ball sailed through the air for 46 yd., cleared the crossbar by a bare three feet, won for Oregon State after a scoreless last half, 9-to-6.

At Ann Arbor, a crowd of 65.000 watched Michigan, unbeaten and untied since 1931, outplayed by Minnesota, whose Pug Lund gained more ground than the whole Michigan backfield put together but failed to get within scoring range until five minutes before the game ended. Then, on fourth down at Michigan's 24-yd. line, Minnesota's Bill Bevan missed the place-kick that would have broken the 0-to-0 tie.

Nebraska, perennial champion of the Big Six, held Pitt once on the 22-yd. line, once on the 14-yd. line, twice on the 2 -yd. line--where in the first half an official's blunder gave Nebraska the ball when Pitt had used only three downs. Finally, in the last period, inside Nebraska's loyd. line, Shedlosky passed to Nicksick-for the Pitt touchdown that won, 6-to-0.

After being outplayed by Navy for three periods, Frank John. Princeton right guard, fell on a fumble for one touchdown. Homer Spoffard cut through tackle for another that kept Princeton's record perfect. 13-to-0.

Little Irvine ("Cotton'') Warburton, Southern California's quarterback, was accused of choosing his plays poorly by Coach Alonzo Stiner, whose Oregon State team held U. S. C. to a scoreless tie. Last week, against the University of Oregon, which beat Oregon State, Warburton caught three forward passes, turned one of them into one of the four touchdowns that won for Southern California, 26-to-0.

Duke, only undefeated major team in the South, used its varsity for two touchdowns in the first period and one in the last. Substitutes held North Carolina in check between times, 21-to-0.

In their 50th game, on a snow-covered field at Williamstown, Mass., Williams beat Amherst for the 30th time, 14-to-0.

Because Notre Dame had failed not only to win a game but even to score a point for more than a month, 20 members of the squad carried rabbits' feet to last week's encounter with Northwestern. Luck had nothing to do with the result, 7-to-0. Notre Dame battled fiercely for its victory, gained 256 yd. to Northwestern's 46, 13 first downs to Northwestern's 1.

A long Denver pass and a recovered fumble gave Utah its first Rocky Mountain Conference defeat since 1927, null

Chicago, supposed to be the weakest team in the Western Conference, made Illinois work for its touchdown in the second period, work even harder to stop a Chicago drive on their 1-yd. line a minute before the game ended, 7-to-0. The victory left Illinois, like Ohio State, which it plays this week, a chance for the Big Ten championship-in case Northwestern beats Michigan and Wisconsin beats Minnesota this week.

With the score tied, 6-to-6 in the third quarter. Brown's Center Payne sent a pass that went over the heads of the backfield, rolled to his 11-yd. line where a Brown man accidentally kicked it. Awarded possession of the ball, Harvard promptly punched over the winning touchdown, 12-to-6.

Pennsylvania Military College held unbeaten, untied Army scoreless for three periods before losing 12-to-0.

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