Football

Last week, on the first full-fledged Saturday of the football season, U. S. citizens momentarily stopped criticizing military maneuvers on the Maginot Line, turned their attention to the field maneuvers of their favorite college football teams. Some of the games that kept them kibitzing long after the sun went down:

>At South Bend, Ind., mighty Notre Dame, No. 11contender for the mythical U. S. football championship this year, had a hard time shaking off a scrappy Georgia Tech team led by a tantalizing little 140-pounder named Johnny Bosch, finally subdued them 17-to-14.

>At Evanston, Ill., Northwestern--exhibiting their precious new Wildcat, highly touted Bill de Correvont, who scored 211 points for Chicago's Austin High two years ago--discovered that they needed more than de Correvont's swivel hips to make a bid for the Big Ten title. Against Oklahoma, Big Six champions last year, the Wildcats were stampeded, 23-to-0.

>In New York's Polo Grounds, a powerful Fordham team--boasting two of the best backs in the country (Eshmont and Blumenstock) and a 220-lb. tackle (Kuzman) called "Little Sir Wrecker" because he injured several of his teammates during pre-season scrimmage--was outrushed and outsmarted by a going-to-town Alabama team, 7-to-6.

>At Los Angeles, Southern California--Rose Bowl champions last year and rated the West Coast's No. 1 team again this year despite the loss of ten of their star performers--white-washed Washington State with a varied assortment of brushes, 27-to-0.

>At Fayetteville, Ark., Texas Christian, undefeated and untied last year, showed that they missed little Davey O'Brien--the one-man gang of 1938 (now playing professional football for the Philadelphia Eagles)--as they lost their opening Conference game to Arkansas, 14-10-13.

>At Pittsburgh, the remnants of Pitt's 1938 Dream Team (minus Goldberg, Stebbins, Chickerneo and Coach Jock Sutherland) that had been painstakingly put together by their new coach, Charley Bowser, displayed some sparkling aerial tactics that bombed West Virginia, 20-to-0.

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