Football

In the Army-Yale game two years ago, a spry little Yale sophomore with a crooked nose, slightly bowed legs and a crest of stubborn dark hair stole the thunder of Army's famed Christian Cagle, made all three touchdowns that won for Yale (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929). This year, still Yale's greatest back, small Albert J. ("Albie") Booth is also Yale's captain. Although he has seldom been injured, and never seriously, he spends a good part of the time sitting on the bench, wearing an oversized woolen hood which makes him look like a gnome, while Yale's other able backs--Lassiter, Crowley, Heim--do most of the work. So far this season it has not been necessary for authorities to segregate Booth from curious sportswriters, for the Yale coaching staff to insist that Booth is "just another back."

Nothing in Booth's football career could possibly be so spectacular as the game against Army in 1929. But the Dartmouth game last week closely approached it. After Dartmouth's field goal in the second period, Booth caught the kick-off on his 6-yd. line, balanced himself on his toes for an instant, ran back 94-yd. with negligible interference, for a touchdown. Thereafter, he made a tackle that prevented a Dartmouth score, knocked down one pass, intercepted another, threw one to Barres for a gain of 22 yd., then caught one from Todd and ran 2 2 yd. for another touchdown. After the kick-off and one of Morton's long Dartmouth punts. Booth took the ball again, squirmed through a gap at right tackle, cut over to the sidelines and, with End John Sargent for bodyguard, scampered 53 yd. for his third touchdown in one period.

Having provided his team with what seemed a safe margin, Gnome Booth retired to the sidelines, watched Dartmouth creep up. In the last half he returned to the lineup but by this time McCall and Morton were making a turncoat of the jinx that has bothered Dartmouth in previous Yale Bowl games. Morton had made a 94-yd. runback of a Yale kickoff. McCall caught a pass intended for Booth, scuttled 60 yd. for a touchdown. Three minutes before the game ended the score which had been Yale 33, Dartmouth 10 had become Yale 33, Dartmouth 30. Standing on Yale's 24-yd. line, on third down, Morton decided not to gamble with the jinx. He made the dropkick that tied the score instead of trying for a touchdown.

Notre Dame's star this year is No. 18. a hulking left-halfback named Marchmont Schwartz. Against Carnegie Tech, he scored Notre Dame's first touchdown, with a 58-yd. run through left tackle, watched squad-mates on Notre Dame's No. 1 and No. 2 teams make two more to win, 19 to 0.

On the West Coast Southern California, Conference leader, had no game scheduled. In a thick fog at San Francisco, 50,000 spectators saw St. Mary's beat their traditional rival, Santa Clara, 21 to 14. Other scores: California 25, Nevada 6; Stanford 12, University of California Los Angeles, 6; Washington 77, Whitman, 0.

Intersectional football games in the last five years have established by & large, the overwhelming superiority of the Far West. In last week's best intersectional game, Oregon, beaten 53 to 0 by Southern California, went up against N. Y. U., considered one of the East's strongest teams. The score--14 to 6--failed to reveal fully Oregon's superiority. Mark Temple started the game with Oregon's first touchdown, passed to a confrere named Gee for the second, kicked both extra points.

Duke's Blue Devils distinguished themselves by making the first score of the year against Tennessee--2 points, when Brackett was tackled for a safety--against Tennessee's 25.

Pug Rentner helped Northwestern back up its claim to this year's Big Ten championship by smothering Illinois 32 to 6, with four touchdowns in the first quarter, one in the last.

A Princeton team, so feeble that the statistics of its attack for the whole game showed a net loss of 4 yd., somehow held Michigan to three touchdowns, 21 to 0.

The report went around that one "W. Burzik" had offered three Minnesota players $1,500 each to throw the game against Wisconsin. The Minnesota players-- Captain Clarence Munn, Kenneth Macdougall, Jack Manders--did not take the matter seriously. Minnesota 14, Wisconsin 0.

Missouri's 70-yd. march was stopped on Nebraska's i-yd. line by the time-keeper's whistle, ending the game with Nebraska still ahead, 10-7.

A decision by Field Judge C. L. Bolster --which gave Cornell the ball on Columbia's 11-yd. line for interference--and a brilliant pass (Ferraro to Joe Martinez to Zorrilla) accounted for Cornell's 13 to 0 victory over the team which beat Dartmouth last fortnight.

Florida alumni made a mistake when they selected the day of the Georgia game for a homecoming at Gainesville. Led on the defense by Left-End Vernon ("Cat-fish") Smith, on the offense by backs named Dickens, Wickens and Whire, Georgia made a touchdown or two in every period, won handsomely, 33 to 6.

Vanderbilt, unable to score in its two preceding games, made up for lost time against Georgia Tech, 49 to 7.

Since the season started, nine football players have died of injuries received in play. When Cadet Richard Brinsley Sheridan died of a broken neck received in the Army-Yale game last fortnight a movement began to eliminate the kickoff, admittedly the most dangerous play in football. Five of the nine members of the football rules committee last week said that they oppose any such change.

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