Upsets & Downset

Most stimulating prospect afforded by early season football is the possibility of an upset. Most stimulating game on last week's schedule--between Minnesota, and Nebraska--was one in which an upset was inevitable. Minnesota, which had lost only one game (to Northwestern in the mud last year) since 1932, was being touted as the most highly regarded team in the U. S. But Major Lawrence ("Biff") Jones was making his debut as Nebraska's coach, and Major Jones had never in his coaching career lost an opening game.

Last week's 36,000 spectators gasped when flashy Halfback Andy Uram, who beat Nebraska almost singlehanded last year, missed a try for extra point after Minnesota scored a first-quarter touchdown. Minnesota made just two more fatal blunders. At the beginning of the second quarter Bill Matheny let the ball bounce out of his hands, Nebraska recovered it on Minnesota's 24-yd. line, plunged through for its first touchdown. At the .start of the fourth, after Minnesota had scored a field goal, Substitute Harold Van Every fumbled a punt, Nebraska's Bill Callahan , grabbed it. Two quick passes were enough for Nebraska's-second touchdown and opening-game victory, 14-to-9.

When Cornell and Colgate last met in 1923, Cornell won 34-to-7. Last week Cornell had a comparative newcomer. Carl Snavely. instead of old Gil Dobie. but the results were even more disastrous. With practically the same team that lost all but three minor games last season. Cornell proceeded to give Colgate the worst beating it has experienced in nine years. A Negro end named Brud Holland scored three touchdowns in the last quarter. The score: 40-to-7.

In his first year at Springfield College (Mass.) where his father Amos Alonzo Stagg made his coaching debut 47 years ago. Coach Paul Stagg saw his team trounced by Harvard 54-to-0.

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