Upset of the Week

Before the game with the University of Iowa, Notre Dame's Frank Leahy, coach of the unbeaten, untied No. 1 team in the U.S., sang a typical blue note. "Iowa," he groaned, "is the most improved team in the country."

Iowa quickly made Leahy look prescient. Coming up to the end of the first half, Underdog Iowa, perennial also-rans of the Big Ten, actually led the nation's No. 1 team 7 to 0. What happened next sent the lowans off to intermission with gritted teeth: with time running out, a Notre Dame lineman feigned an injury. This stopped the clock and gave Notre Dame time for one more pass play. The pass, from Quarterback Ralph Guglielmi to End Dan Shannon, was good, and Notre Dame tied the score at 7-7.

Late in the last quarter, with Iowa leading again, 14 to 7, Coach Leahy saw his national championship slipping away. Once more Notre Dame had the ball deep in Iowa territory, with the clock running out. This time, two Notre Dame linemen feigned injury. When the clock started up again, there was just time for three quick passes into the end zone, the last for another Guglielmi-Shannon touchdown. Iowa's prize: the upset of the week. Notre Dame's: a slightly tarnished tie, 14-14.

In other games last week:

Underdog Harvard won revenge for four straight defeats by Yale (including last year's, when Yale scored its final point on an after-touchdown pass to the student manager) by outdriving the heavier Yale line, bottling the Yale backfield to win 13 to 0. Michigan State won its way to the Rose Bowl after beating Marquette 21 to 15. U.C.L.A. won the other Rose Bowl ticket by beating Southern California 13 to 0. Back East, undefeated University of Maryland, closer than ever to the top U.S. rating, breezed through Alabama 27 to 0.

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