Football

Last Saturday, with a tooth in the wind and a squint in the sky, saw the yellow moon of football ripening to the full.

"Red" Grange, in a new yellow head-guard that shone like the helmet of Navarre, ran out on a field at Philadelphia before 65,000 people who had decided that he was a myth. Before the game was five minutes old Grange had run 60 yards for a touchdown; before it was over he had scored two more and made a fourth possible. He carried the ball 36 times, gained 363 yards. Score: Illinois 24, Pennsylvania 2.

Coach Roper of Princeton kept backs Slagle and Bridges sitting on the bench beside him lest they get hurt before the Harvard game this week, but he sent Dignan against Swarthmore, knowing well that if Dignan were not there to punt, if Dignan were not there to throw passes, hit the line, and tackle, his team might make a poor showing. Dignan did well. Score: Princeton 19, Swarthmore 7. Harvard managed to beat William and Mary though there were Boston "townies"* who left the stands loudly insisting that Mary had played the whole game--that if William had got in, even for a period, everything would have been different. Score: Harvard 12, William and Mary, 7.

A broken-nosed back named McCarty ran 25 yards to make the lone touchdown by which Chicago registered its customary victory over Purdue. Score: Chicago 6, Purdue 0.

Hibben of Princeton, Lowell of Harvard, Angell of Yale, Farrand of Cornell, Hadley of Washington, Wilbur of California, Scott of Northwestern, Kinley of Illinois, Brooks of Missouri, Chase of North Carolina,/- sat in the stands and saw Yale, amazingly rejuvenated, break a 7-7 tie in the last period and riot furiously across the goalline of an overtrained and suddenly despairing Army eleven. Score: Yale 28, Army 7.

The Wolverines of Michigan snarled and snapped, clawed, chewed up the Navy team, 54 to 0. "Biggest naval disaster of all time," said critics.

Emerson Carey Jr.** kicked a goal from the 39-yard line so that Cornell could beat Columbia--a goal that never would have been needed if two lucky breaks had not given the latter a brace of unearned touchdowns. Cornell made 21 first downs to Columbia's 6. Score: Cornell 17, Columbia 14.

Southern sport writers call Georgia Tech's team "The Golden Tornado," but for all the explosive grandeur of that name Georgia could do little against Flanagan and his friends from Notre Dame. Score: Notre Dame 13, Georgia Tech 0.

After three scoreless periods, Spears of Drake crossed the goalline of a somewhat bleeding Kansas; Sutherland added the point. Score: Drake 7, Kansas 0.

Dartmouth kept its slate clean by the efforts of two linesmen who blocked two kicks and scored two touchdowns to beat Brown, 14 to 0.

Holy Cross, another undefeated team, had an easy time with Bucknell. Score: Holy Cross 23, Bucknell 7. It is bad to be born with a name like a fumble, Michalske, for instance; worse if that is your name and you actually fumble to let in the one score of a game that would otherwise have been a scoreless tie. Yet a man is not responsible for his name nor for every sleight of fortune that may juggle a ball out of his arms, and teammates tried to console Fullback Michalske of Penn State even though his fumble in the second half meant that Syracuse won, 7 to 0. Eleven dogged Pittsburghers, once called the Panthers, rampaged against a flaccid team from Johns Hopkins. Score: Pittsburgh 31, Johns Hopkins 0.

*Middle class and low class Bostonians, as a rule, dislike Harvard. /- College presidents, all.

**Also champion. Junior Amateur Western Golf champion.