"Thunder Team"

Since the middle of this waning football season, Californians have suspected that Coach Leonard ("Stub") Allison had a great football team at the University of California. Gauge of the fact was that California used only 14 plays, most of them power plays, yet so well executed and so well mixed by pot-bellied Quarterback John Meek that they remained effective. Key man of the California team is six-foot four-inch All-America Centre Bob Herwig, who snaps the ball unerringly, runs fast interference, and backs up the line on defense. Most likely California All-America this year is Halfback Sam Chapman. He is the best punter in the Pacific Coast Conference, a good passer and runner, a fearless ankle-tackler. On the defense Centre Herwig receives sterling support from Guard Claude Evans, one of the most dangerous tacklers in the nation. A possible team weakness is on pass defense, where the backfield is occasionally fooled. California came last week to its annual game with Stanford, having decisively won all its games excepting a 0-0 tie with Washington. Stanford, the most erratic team on the Pacific Coast, still had a chance to win the right to play on New Year's day in the Rose Bowl by suddenly emerging in one of its "hot" spells. During the first period 85,000 fans shivered in the rain as the teams tentatively tired each other out. In the second period California's "Thunder Team" started rumbling. On two sustained drives, it carried over two successive touchdowns. They were enough. California won 13-to-0 and assured itself of the New Year's Day game--probably with Alabama.

P: By reason of its star, Clint Frank, and a season without defeat, Yale was top-heavy favorite to whip Harvard, which had been beaten by Dartmouth and Army. The equalizing factor was that Harvard had beaten Princeton, and the only thing Harvard would rather do than beat Yale or Princeton is beat them both. It had not done so since 1915. Harvard drew first blood in the second quarter when Ray Daughters caught a forward pass and shook off two Yale tacklers, scored. In the next quarter Yale got moving, and the great Frank bounced off the Yale line to tie the score. But with seven minutes to play, Harvard's Francis Foley faked a smash at tackle and scuttled ten yards around end for a touchdown. Harvard's season was successful, 13-to-6.

P: If not the most important of traditional football rivalries, certainly the longest geographically is that formed seven years ago between St. Mary's of California & Fordham of New York. This year St. Mary's football season was spoiled by money troubles, and Fordham had been tied only by Pittsburgh. As expected, Fordham bruised and bumped St. Mary's all over the field, three times scored touchdowns that were called back. In the third period Joe Woitkoski finally scored the one that beat St. Mary's, 6-to-0.

P: Pop Warner's Temple team took its worst thumping since he became coach five years ago. Unbeaten Villanova trampled them, 33-to-0.

P: Minnesota, twice defeated in non-con-ference play (by Nebraska and Notre Dame), again clinched the Big Ten championship, by defeating Wisconsin, 13-to-6.

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