Monday, Dec. 14, 1936
Football: Addenda
Complete except for a few scattered games, the football season of 1936 last week wound up in a series of controversies, prizes and suggestions. Main developments: Rose Bowl representative for the Pacific Coast Conference, chosen last fortnight, is the University of Washington (TIME, Dec. 7). Rules of the contest, to be held on New Year's Day at Pasadena, permit the Pacific Coast representative to invite any team it wants as its opponent.
Last week, Washington announced that it had invited Pitt and that Pitt had accepted.
Sportswriters all over the U. S. ridiculed Washington's choice on two counts. Pitt this year has been beaten by Duquesne, tied by Fordham. Louisiana State and Alabama, each with one tie and no defeats, both have better records. Asked to play in New Orleans' Sugar Bowl game on New Year's Day, Louisiana State promptly accepted, will play against undefeated" and untied Santa Clara--which still has to play Texas Christian this week--as its opponent for the "championship of the U. S." Heisman Memorial Trophy, awarded annually to the country's "outstanding football player" by New York's Downtown Athletic Club, went to Yale's Right End Lawrence Morgan Kelley.
"Ivy League" is the newspaper nickname for a non-existent football league made up of old, ivy-covered colleges on the East Coast. Last week, undergraduate newspapers at Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale simultaneously printed identical editorials advocating that the "Ivy League" be made a reality with conference rules, schedule restrictions patterned on those of the Midwest's Big Ten. "Ivy League" athletic officials pooh-poohed the idea.
In Chicago, at their annual winter meeting, Big Ten officials heard a proposal, submitted by a young Wisconsin history professor named Robert L. Reynolds, to diminish undercover professionalism by awarding able footballers "athletic scholarships" of $400 a year. The proposal was rejected by a vote of 9-to-1.
Games-- In Los Angeles, Southern California's Fullback Dick Berryman ran 65 yards for one touchdown and a moment later Bud Langley, a substitute halfback, intercepted a pass on his own goal line and went the length of the field for the other that balanced-the rewards of Notre Dame's two long marches, 13-to-13. At Tyler, Tex., Manhattan's rally in the last quarter failed to match Texas Aggies' two touchdowns in the third, 13-to-6. At Memphis, Tennessee and Mississippi came to 0-to-0.
At San Francisco, winding up a mediocre season in a blaze of intersectional glory, St. Mary's came from behind to beat Temple, 13-to-7.
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