Football

Football's great myth is the National Championship, to which, last week, Tulane, only major team in the U. S. which has won all its games, seemed to have the best claim. The National Championship, however, was invented for purposes of argument. The flaw in Tulane's claim was a schedule which included no intersectional games. By beating Northwestern, generally acknowledged champion of the Big Ten, Purdue last week became a member of the group of claimants. Southern California, though beaten once, in early season, by St. Mary's, had the strongest record on the Pacific Coast, a record which the drubbing Stanford gave to Dartmouth last week made more impressive. After a week-end in which three previous claimants--Notre Dame, Tennessee, Northwestern--were effectively dislodged, footballers looked forward to the last decisive intersectional games of the year--Tulane v. Washington State, Southern Methodist v. St. Mary's, Tennessee v. N. Y. U.

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Spectators in the Yale Bowl last week expected to see Princeton somewhat redeem itself from six defeats in a row. What they saw instead was a ridiculous landslide in which Yale ran up the biggest score in Big Three history, 51 to 14. Yale's small Captain Albie Booth, ill with pleurisy, listened to the game over a radio, wondered later whether, as Coach Stevens was quoted as saying, "Every Yale player felt that he was playing for Albie Booth. . . . 'Another touchdown for Albie' was the word passed along."

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Princeton's first touchdown came soon after the start of the last quarter. On the next play, Lassiter caught the Princeton kick-off and ran 95 yd. to a touchdown. Yale got one more touchdown (eight in all) before a long forward pass from Purnell to Johnston scored again for Princeton. The game ended with Yale, still eager to make another touchdown for Booth, on Princeton's 18-yd. line.

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When Stecker failed to kick goal after Army's first touchdown against Notre Dame, he had reason to be worried. Army lost to Notre Dame by one point last year, lost to Harvard the same way this year. In the last quarter, Stecker missed another kick for point after touchdown but this one mattered less. He had just run 68 yd. for Army's second touchdown which made the final score 12 to 0. Only once since 1917 has a Notre Dame team lost two games in succession. Bewildered, Notre Dame's Coach Heartley W. ("Hunk") Anderson said: "Last Saturday's game [against Southern California] took too much out of us. We had nothing left for today."

Ernest Caddell ran 72 yd. on Stanford's first play, 64 yd. later in the same period and caught a pass in the last quarter for three of the five touchdowns that won against Dartmouth, at Cambridge, 32 to 6.

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With the Western Conference championship almost safely won, Northwestern played Purdue in a post-season charity game. There was only one substitution for Purdue in the entire game. That was when Paul Pardonner left the game a minute before it ended, when he had drop-kicked the extra point after Purvis' touchdown. Purdue's victory--7 to o--left Northwestern, Purdue and Michigan--which beat Wisconsin, 16 to o--tied for the Big Ten championship.

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Tulane became the only unbeaten and untied major team in the U. S. by swamping Louisiana five touchdowns to one, 34 to 7, after being behind for the first time this year in the first period.

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Southern Methodist found the field too wet for a forward passing game, played Texas Christian to a tedious, scoreless tie which saved the Southwest Conference championship but made it less important.

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Kentucky got its tie with Tennessee when Kreuter picked up a blocked Tennessee punt and scuttled 16 yd. for a touchdown. Tennessee had half expected something like this to happen--Kentucky spoiled their record in 1930, in 1929--but they were expecting something better a few minutes later when Tennessee had the ball on Kentucky's 6-in. line. The Kentucky line held, the game ended 6 to 6.

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Pittsburgh's Paul Reider got a broken shoulder in the first quarter against Nebraska; but Pittsburgh's Warren Heller smashed up Nebraska's All-American (1930) Tackle Hugh Rhea, and smashed across the goal line with four of the six Pitt touchdowns which made the Big Six champions look foolish, 40 to 0.

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Cornell ran off an 80-yd. march in the first seven minutes of the game. After that, Pennsylvania surprisingly held its own, almost spoiled the finish of Cornell's best season since 1923. Score: Cornell 7, Penn 0.

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