Football

''. . . For several years Trojan football players have been the idols in the eyes of the mercenary population of Hollywood. Rather the Trojans thought they were idols, though actually they were as toys to some henna-haired beauty or to a film magnate. They were wined and dined and made to feel the world was theirs, when they were really just pawns. ... If S. C.'s gridders can forget the false friendship of Hollywood and buckle down to the task of football . . . there is nothing that can stop them from vanquishing Pittsburgh Saturday."

When he read this editorial in University of Southern California's Daily Trojan last week, Southern California's famed Football Coach Howard Jones became indignant. At Kansas City, en route to Pittsburgh, he gave his squad a talk: "If there is any truth in it, it will show up Saturday. ... If we lose, I'll be ashamed of all of you." When the Southern California squad arrived at Pittsburgh for the biggest intersectional game of the week, a sports-page headline said: FILM CUTIES' TOY TROJANS ARRIVE.

If the Daily Trojan's strange accusations and Coach Jones's comments were part of a deep plan to goad his players into an effective rage, they failed miserably last week. At Pittsburgh a crowd of 50,000 saw Pitt get revenge for two defeats in Rose Bowl games by bottling up Southern California's towheaded little Quarterback Irvine Warburton, capitalizing Southern California's misplays. Score of Southern California's second beating in a row this year: 20-to-6.

University of Michigan, Big Ten champions for the last four years, had not lost to Chicago since 1919. Chicago had not won a conference game since 1932. In Chicago last week Halfback Jay Berwanger pounded out two touchdowns for Chicago, his teammate Fred Bartlett pounded out two more. Score of Michigan's second beating in a row this year and most decisive since the War: 27-to-0.

At San Francisco, Coach Slip Madigan, whose efforts have built "little" St. Mary's into one of the most formidable football teams on the West Coast, coolly started his second string against Nevada. Nevada made a touchdown. Sent in to save the game, St. Mary's first string made the score 7-to-6 at halftime. In the last few minutes of play, Nevada's centre Tom Cashill won the game with a drop-kicked field goal, 9-to-7.

At Durham, before the biggest crowd that ever watched a football game in North Carolina, Duke gave Georgia Tech, worrying about this week's game with Michigan whose star is Negro Willis Ward, something more to worry about, 20-to-0.

Snow that postponed one New England game turned to a bleak drizzle at Cambridge where a Harvard team in its game against Brown spryly utilized a blocked kick at the beginning of the first period, an intercepted pass at the end of the last, to win 13-to-0.

George Melinkovich. who learned Notre Dame football under Knute Rockne and spent last year recovering from yellow jaundice; Fred Carideo, whose cousin Frank was quarterback in 1928-29-30; a sophomore named Wallace Fromhart; Mike Layden, younger brother of this year's coach, are Notre Dame's new backfield. Last week Melinkovich ran 60 yd. for one touchdown, plunged 3 yd. for another. Carideo intercepted a pass and scuttled 70 yd. for the third, that beat Purdue. 18-to-7.

A husky Nebraska line took care of Iowa's Oze Simmons, the Negro sophomore who last fortnight caused Coach Hanley of Northwestern to call him "the greatest running back in my experience." 14-to-13.

At Palo Alto, Stanford put Northwestern in a class with Michigan and Southern California. 20-to-0.

A 62-yd. run by Stratford Morton at the start of the first half, a pair of passes at the start of the second, gave Yale an unconvincing victory over a Penn team that marched 75 yd. for its one touchdown, 14-to-6.

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