Football

With the score 7-to-7 and four minutes to play, Bill Corbus, Stanford's All-American guard, booted a place kick from the 23-yd. line over Southern California's goal posts. Thus fell, with a resounding crash, the fattest Humpty Dumpty of 1933 football and the first big one to fall. To make sure the pieces would not be put together again that day, Corbus kicked again, scored again, 13-to-7.

Stanford, with one of the speediest backfields on the Coast, looked better than it had looked for a long time. Nevertheless Southern California, which had held its perch throughout 27 games, was 2-to-1 favorite when the teams trotted into the field at Los Angeles last week. Of the 90,000 who witnessed this Humpty's fall, probably none enjoyed it more than Stanford's oldtime football manager, Herbert Clark Hoover.

U. S. C. started in characteristic style with a touchdown in the first period by towheaded Irvine ("Scooter") Warburton, its nimble, 145-lb. quarterback, who wriggled free on Stanford's 43-yd. line. In the next period Stanford's speedy Fullback Bobby Grayson slashed and passed through the Trojan line, punched over a touchdown. Southern California's line stiffened and it looked like a tie game when Bill Corbus went to work.

The name of Corbus already was great at Stanford and at Vallejo (Calif.) High School which last year re-christened its gridiron Corbus Field for the alumnus whose cleated shoes had honored it. When he entered Stanford in 1930 Bill Corbus, big, blond and handsome, had to submit to the nickname "Baby Face." With even less relish he heard sportwriters call him "Baby Faced Assassin." He achieved scholastic standing (in economics) far above average. Last year he was elected president of the student body, was named right guard on Grantland Rice's All-American. Quiet, unassuming, no chesty campus hero, he worked as hard as the rawest scrub in football practice this season.

U. S. C. had more to worry about in this week's game against Oregon. Last week Oregon, led by its Fullback "Mighty Mike" Mikulak, made two battering-ram 70-yd. drives through Oregon State to win 13-to-3. Oregon State was the team which held U. S. C. to a scoreless tie last month. Last week's result set Oregon up as the season's new Humpty Dumpty of the Pacific, undefeated and untied.

Dartmouth's hard-hitting seven-man defense had Princeton's backfield tumbling and fumbling until the second half when Princeton shifted to a passing attack. Of 14 forward passes, Princeton completed eight, one an underhand toss to the corner of the field for the only touchdown of the game, 7-to-0. Princeton remained unbeaten, untied, unscored-on for the season.

Army's demoniac tackling, fierce line-bucking, and the running passes of Jack Buckler were far too much for Harvard. Four Army parades of 40 to 62 yd. each led across Harvard's goal, 27-to-0.

Nicknamed "Rabbit" as are small, fast backfield men everywhere, Georgia's 142-Ib. Homer Key sprinted 40 yd. through Vale. Thence he and his brilliant teammates Cy Grant and George Chapman, 200-lb. fullback, worked the ball to the 2-yd. line. Chapman punched over the touchdown. Yale played by far its best football of the season in holding Georgia to that lone touchdown, 7-to-0.

Michigan's kick-blocking ends and Halfback Herman Everhardus' toe again helped to keep Michigan on the Humpty Dumpty wall. Everhardus booted a field goal against Iowa, kicked the extra point after Bill Renner had forward-passed to a touchdown. Left End Ted Petoskey crashed through to block the kick-for-point after Iowa's touchdown, 10-to-6.

Against Purdue, Notre Dame again presented the pathetic spectacle of a team fighting so frantically against a "jinx" that it forgot the fundamentals of football. It tried to pass from its own 15-yd. line. A Purdue guard intercepted the pass, trotted across the goal. A Notre Dame fumble let Purdue forward pass to a second touchdown. Sheer demoralization permitted the third score. Three times Notre Dame penetrated beyond Purdue's 10yd. line, once to the 1-yd. line, only to collapse. It was Notre Dame's fourth shut-out of the season, 19-to-o.

Coach Dana X. Bible, who plasters the Nebraska locker room with such slogans as "They Shall Not Score," "An Undefeated Team Doesn't Just Happen--It's a Thing We Have to Make," saw his team flatten Kansas, 12-to-0, win the Big Six title for the third successive year. Undefeated, untied, Nebraska yielded only one touchdown this season, to Oklahoma.

Columbia had been beaten only by Princeton when it faced Navy last week. It was to be the last important game of his college career for Cliff Montgomery, Columbia's captain, quarterback and current hero. Behind a pile-driving line he made an early touchdown, only to see Navy tie the score with a 76-yd. run by Halfback "Buzz" Borries. Again in the third period Montgomery made a touchdown and the game looked safe. In the last few minutes Ed Brominski batted a Navy pass into the arms of Navy's Borries. Borries dashed for Columbia's goal, was tackled on the 8-yd. line by Cliff Montgomery. Again Navy passed, and this time Brominski redeemed himself. He grabbed the ball, ran it back to midfield as the timer's gun went off, 14-to-7.

Illinois' Fullback Dave Cook broke a tug-of-war with Northwestern by a handsome place kick from the 22-yd. line, 3-to-0.

Michigan State drove down a snow-sogged field to Carnegie Tech's 1-yd. line. Carnegie fought back to Michigan State's 1-yd. line. Michigan tried to kick a field goal, missed. So did Carnegie, 0-to-0.

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