Football

The score was Colgate 6, Brown 0 The ball was on the Colgate 1-yd. line. There was time for just one more play in the first half. Brown's 162-lb. Quarterback Robert Ramsay Chase took the ball. There was a squirming pile of players, a moment of silence while the referee examined the position of the ball. It was still two inches from the goal line.

In the second half, Colgate, instead of playing safe to protect its lead, used its six points as an excuse for taking chances. The chances turned out well. Colgate's guard, Captain Bob Smith, blocked a Brown punt and Chase recovered it behind his own goal line for a safety that cost Brown two points. Colgate's Left Halfback Whitey Ask intercepted a Brown pass on his 20-yd. line and Colgate rattled off another touchdown, with spinners and reverses. Brown, trying for a touchdown at any cost, passed on fourth down instead of kicking and lost the ball on its 36-yd. line. A pass, Conroy to Bodganski, made Colgate's third touchdown, settled the championship of the East, 21-to-0.

It settled the championship of the East because, as rarely happens, the game was between undefeated, untied teams, playing their last game of the season. Brown, with a harder schedule, had the stronger record, with victories over Yale, Harvard, Holy Cross, Columbia. Colgate's major victories before the Brown game had been against Syracuse, N.Y.U. and Penn State. but its goal-line stand against Brown enabled it to accomplish a feat unequaled by an Eastern team since Pitt and Navy in 1910 played through a whole season with out being scored against. Brown's chief weapon this year was an unusual "triple wingback" offense, designed by Coach De Ormond ("Tuss") McLaughry to flank both tackles and one end. Colgate, coached by Andy Kerr, a wiry, witty little Scot who was Glenn Warner's predecessor at Stanford (and who, many experts think, teaches Warner football better than Wizard Warner), has an amazingly complicated attack, based not on power but on a multiplicity of spinners, reverses, lateral passes. Colgate's most noticeable linemen are Captain Bob ("Kewpie") Smith, a 172-lb. left guard and Left End Anderson, a graceful and adroit pass-catcher who often finds four men assigned to keep him under cover. Quarterback Charlie Soleau has huge thick legs which have this season enabled him to average an 11-yd. gain per play. Colgate statistics for the season: 99 first downs to opponents' 21; 1,581 yd. to 255; 45 completed passes to 13; 264 points to 0.

"We'll be doing well to hold the Army to three touchdowns . . . Harris, Vairo, Murphy, Boland and Melinkovich have been in the infirmary with influenza. . . . I have never told a bear story before but I mean this one. It looks like a bad day for us. ... We've been scouted plenty. They tell me the Army players even know how to pronounce our names. ... I don't know exactly how I'll start. . . . Last week the second team looked better than the regulars. ... I may mix the starting lineup, possibly the first string line and the second string backfield."--Coach Heartly ("Hunk") Anderson, before the Army v. Notre Dame game.

"Army caught us at the peak of our game. The team was clicking better today than at any time this season. . . . The blocking was superb, particularly the work of the secondaries. The outstanding play in my opinion was the long pass from Banas to Devore for the second touchdown. Murphy called that play on fourth down. . . . We figured that we could stop Vidal and we did. ... On their side, Summerfelt [captain and guard] was outstanding. . . . You know, this clear cold weather is great for curing influenza.''--Coach Anderson, after Notre Dame had sensationally beaten Army 21-to-0, in New York.

Pittsburgh, the team that gave Army its first and Notre Dame its only defeat this season, played clever defensive football against Stanford after Warren Heller's first-period touchdown had settled the game, 7 to 0.

With ten minutes to play and the score tied, 7-to-7, Penn repeated the 46-yd. march it had made in the first period against Cornell, 13-10-7.

Southern California had a harder time than it expected clinching the West Coast Championship with its 18th victory in a row against Washington, on a muddy field at Seattle, 9-to-6, on Substitute Cal Clemens' field goal.

Vanderbilt, unbeaten this year, and favorite at 6-to-1 to beat Alabama, took a thorough thrashing, 20-to-0.

Tennessee, coached by Major Robert Neyland, has won 61 games, lost two and tied five in the last seven years. Three of the ties, against Kentucky, have prevented Tennessee from winning its first Southern Conference title. With no hope of winning the Southern Conference this year, because of last fortnight's tie against Vanderbilt. Tennessee last week got even with Kentucky, 26-to-0.

Angel Brovelli and Michael Steponovich were dropped from the St. Mary's squad for breaking training. Brovelli got on it again in time to do most of the work on the 80-yd. march that beat Oregon in the last period, 7-to-0.

The University of California at Los Angeles lost for the first time this year, 3 to 0, to Washington State. John Eubank, a Washington substitute who went to school at Los Angeles, kicked the field goal from the 40-yd. line. The ball went a few feet above the cross bar and inside the right goal post. The gun that ended the game sounded while the ball was in the air.

The huge stolen church bell with an M on one side, an N on the other, the trophy for the Missouri-Nebraska game, went to Nebraska, 21-to-6.

Tied once this year by Louisiana State, Texas Christian wound up its season by clinching the Southwest Conference title against the 1931 champions, Southern Methodist, 8-to-0, at Dallas.

Georgia Tech and Georgia, playing their annual game on a soft, muddy field at Atlanta, finished with a muddy tie, 0-to-0.

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