Rooting Season

October brought the rooting season. On college football fields, great numbers of burly U. S. males flung their weight about, uprooted one another in scrimmages, ran, shouted, grunted, "rooted" punts. In grandstands, throngs of less burly males and galaxies of highly agitated females "rooted" vocally.

Of the so-called Big Three (Eastern), Princeton set about her work most impressively. When Coach Roper's men had done, Amherst's line was little more than a ragged fabric of perforations and the score was 40 to 6. Coach Roper employed straight plays and three complete teams. Amherst's score was the work of Right Guard Pratt who intercepted a pass, lumbered 30 yards.

Yale chastened the North Carolina "Tar Heels" 27 to 0, rather clumsily except when forward-passing.

Harvard rejoiced in Quarterback Cheek, in Backs Zarakov and Gehrke, as she fell upon Virginia, 14 to 0. Cheek is a line-knifer; Zarakov an artful, eel-hipped dodger; Gehrke's punts sail far.

Though shorn of much of the strength with which she crushed all comers last year, Cornell appeared to be a promising convalescent. Backs Whetstone, Wade and Isaly smashed into the Niagara eleven with commendable violence (27 to 0), and the Big Red line had heft.

Dartmouth flattened McGill 52 to 0--a casual performance, for the Canadians are just discovering football. From end to end, the Dartmouth linemen tower tall, are no lightweights. Quarterback Dooley is well acquainted with his office and has real lightning to unleash in Hall and Oberlander. Rutgers accumulated the week's hugest score, 56 points, by commuting steadily through eleven scoreless sons of Lebanon.

Southward, Valparaiso and Center Colleges wrangled into a pointless tie. Center is but a wraith of the little giantess she was in the day of "Bo" McMillan, her bold, brash back of two seasons ago.

In the Middle West, of the Big Ten Conference, only two teams conferred officially last week. These were Ohio State and Purdue. The single touchdown entered in the minutes of the meeting was moved and seconded by Ohio. Purdue could not seem to carry any of her motions, but stubbornly opposed the Ohio program all down the line. Captain Clayppol, center, was her staunchest reactionary.

Missouri Valley Conference teams took their wares north and east; Nebraska to Illinois, where she was thrashed 9 to 6 for her pains; Missouri to Chicago, where Missouri had the best of a hard-driven 3-to-0 bargain. In the Nebraska game, "Red" Grange, Illinois captain, twinkled again like a bright particular Conference star.

Notre Dame's 152-pound backfield scurried up and down the field, collected 40 points from Lombard.

The first broken neck reported this season, not immediately fatal, was that of George Stevens, of Sherril, N. Y., playing for Cortland Normal School against St. John's Military Academy.