Football

That college football has developed from a form of organized, spirited roughhouse to a vast national business is a fact that has long been obvious but seldom analyzed. Last week a journalist named Francis Wallace published some figures in The Saturday Evening Post. He showed that football's drawing power is about $50,000,000 a year, that some colleges make half a million out of their teams because they "get raw material, exploitation, and labor at slight cost. The schedule makers are planning five years ahead, signing contracts for attractive intersectional games, based no longer on natural rivalry or academic interest as has been the norm, but upon filling the stadium. Alumni, considering themselves stockholders, help to build the stadia, divert promising prep-school material to their particular plants, and ask only the dividends of victory over which they may gloat."

Last week, business went on as usual in various hundred yard factories roofed with sky, capitalistic gloating was minimized because the big teams all had easy games.

P:At Syracuse at about 8:30 in the evening, Warren Stevens ran three times past rows of floodlights that gave the field a blueish tinge to make touchdowns against Hobart. Used successfully in the west for some time, the floodlights proved that many potential gloaters who like to play golf Saturday afternoons will go to night football games. Syracuse 77, Hobart 0.

P:Eleven Vermonters found New York University rockier than any boundary of an upstate cow-pasture, a wall that thudded past them avalanche-like, 77-0.

P:With one flashy sophomore halfback yipping for passes that usually landed safely in the arms of some other flashy sophomore halfback, in the same kind of sweater, Washington hardly needed Jefferson to beat Ohio Northern, 33-0.

P:The 40,000 peoples who inexplicably turned out when the University of Pennsylvania opened its season, were rewarded by seeing Franklin and Marshall College make a one-yard forward pass for the first touchdown it has scored on Pennsylvania since 1915. Penn 14, Franklin and Marshall 7.

P:Halfback Owl, also Bluemenstock and Simonson heard their names cheered by Springfield students who, not daring to expect much, saw them plough through Brown to win by the width of a Brown kick that went crooked. Springfield 7, Brown 6.

P:As soon as Cagle and Murrell were taken out the Army team seemed listless and mediocre. As soon as they went in again it seemed as formidable as 26-0 against Boston University would indicate.

P:As Pittsburgh End Joe Donchess lay prone on Waynesburg's goal line, he lifted his arms as if by accident and found between them a pass that was soon forgotten in his team's scarcely hindered scoring. Pittsburgh 53, Waynesburg 0.