Football

There were flowery floats and cars and trucks, old-fashioned wagons banked up,and festooned with a multitude of roses. All through the streets of Pasadena they went, and the populace made carnival, rioting, waving, singing, skipping; wearing roses, smelling roses, throwing roses, wading through roses. For months, a committee had planned it all, the parade and pageant of the Tournament of Roses./-

Gradually the streets of Pasadena emptied as the rout and revel wound out to the Rose Bowl for the annual East-West football game. On a bench in the stadium, Coach Knute Rockne of Notre Dame stroked his jaw as he watched Leland Stanford, in the first few minutes of play, inexorably shoving his team toward its goal line. The Bowl was bedlam, for most of the 55,000 persons present wanted to see Coach Rockne's team shoveded right off the field. Rockne was not worried, merely pensive. He relinquished his jaw, called to him four young men and said something

like this: "Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden, you may now proceed with the matter in hand.''

Off came their sweaters, out they trotted, back to the bench came Notre Dame's second string backfield. Halfback Cuddeback of Stanford had scored a field goal. Fullback Nevers of Stanford had been shooting passes that gained and gained. Now the Four Horsemen* started their galloping. Now one, now the other, now the third and fourth, they ran, plunged, dodged, wriggled, twisted. Stuhldreher wrenched his ankle. Layden bored through for a touchdown. A few Stanford plays, a bulletlike pass by Nevers, and it was Layden again who leaped to the interception. The field streamed after him for 70 yards to another score. In the third period, Quarterback Solomon of Stanford stooped to recover a punt he had fumbled on his 20-yard line. In swooped Huntsinger, upset Solomon, cantered to a third Notre Dame touchdown. Crowley kicked his third extra point.

Then Notre Dame flaunted her power. Back by her own goal she unbottled a pass. Nevers of Stanford pulled it down and proceeded furiously to hurl his 200 pounds into the Notre Dame

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line. It crumbled at guard, it crumbled at tackle, it might have crumbled again, but Halfback Walker whipped a pass over the line to Left End Shipkey and the huge Nevers' pounding was no longer necessary. Cuddeback kicked goal.

In the fourth period, Baker intercepted a pass and Nevers again pulverized a path for Stanford. That time Notre Dame stayed him at the 8-inch line, however; and before the whistle blew, Horseman Layden frisked away six points of good measure. Score:

Notre Dame 27, Leland Stanford 10.

At Berkeley, the Golden Bears of the University of California basked in balmy sunshine, padded out upon their velvety gridiron, watched eleven red-and-blue-bellied men of Pennsylvania assume positions opposite. The Bears gave greeting, sprawled and stretched genially,

ambled to the encounter. Their breed had not been beaten since 1919. Here was a foe come 3,000 miles to try its hand. Excellent.

After a bit of sparring, Captain McGraw of the Pennmen punted out to Imlay, "the Red Grange of the Coast." Imlay fumbled. Instead of a Pennman, was Golden Bear Dixon who covered, who swept up the ball and lunged along for 20 yards before they pulled him to earth. Golden Bear Young, mighty of haunch and barrel, then barged through to a score. All through that half they kept it up--Young, Imlay and Dixon, big men

with whirlwind speed, bursting the Penn line, shaking off tacklers as bears shake terriers.

Penn held at her goal, but attacked only once. That was early in the second quarter, when off-tackle prods and jabs by Backs Douglass and Laird and a hurtling pass by McGraw put Kruez in position for a field goal from the 28-yard line. Kruez had a swollen foot. He sighted, kicked, missed. Penn tore at her foes in the second half. Fields, Leth and Thomas, new blood in the backfield, ripped in with McGraw until the 7-yard line was reached. There Bruin dug his claws in the ground. Fields smashed on a yard. Leth squirmed ahead two more. Mc-Graw called up all

his strength, ground into the scrimmage. Still a yard short. One more pileup, Thomas at the heart of it. Was it over? Not quite, 12 inches shy. Out soared the California punt. After an exchange of fumbles, Penn tried again, little Andy Thompson trotting in to toss passes. But little Andy was wild. In the fourth period, the Bears took the ball on downs, and with another brawny fullback, Griffin, shouldered through, 58 yards in seven plays, to make the final score: California 14, Penn 0.

At Dallas: West Virginia Weseyan 9, Southern Methodist 7.

/-The Tournament, held at California's gayest flower season, was begun in 1893 by the Valley Hunt Club of Pasadena. The East-West football game was instituted in 1916 scores: 1916, Washington State 14, Brown 0; 1917, Oregon 14, Penn 0; 1918, 1919, no games; 1920, Harvard 7, Oregon 6; 1921, California 28, Ohio State 0; 1922, Washington and Jefferson 0, California 0; 1923, University of Southern California 14, Penn State 1924, Washington State 14, Navy 14; 1925, Notre Dame 27, Leland Stanford 10.

*The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame's Football Apocalypse: the four backs above mentioned, so named by sport writers inspired by the title of a novel by Author Vicente Blasco Ibanez, who in turn drew upon the visionary mysticism of St. John the Divine (Revelation vi).