Monday, Nov. 25, 1929
Football
In moleskins and a fur-collared coat, Yale's Albie Booth, being saved for Harvard, sat on the bench where everyone could see him. On the field Donald McLennan, second substitute for Booth, after a scoreless first half, cut through tackle and around end to jam through one touchdown and lead the way for another. Eddie Wittmer and ten other hard-working Princetonians found they were up against a better team. Yale 13, Princeton 0.
Big Harmeson passed to a squat little fellow named Bill Woerner who, falling across Iowa's line, gave Purdue its first Big Ten championship in 33 years. Purdue 7, Iowa 0.
Next week Purdue's famed Backs Welch, Yunevich and Harmeson line up against Indiana in their final game.
Members of Indiana's Anti-Shave Club, wearing beards till their team had won a game, saw a little back named George Ross score 14 points in the last ten minutes. Then the Club swarmed onto the field waving shaving mugs, brushes. Indiana 19, Northwestern 14.
Whenever a huddle of Gophers held out their arms to catch a pass, a Michigan man popped up and intercepted it. Pharmer did some good passing and kicking for his own side. Michigan 7, Minnesota 6.
Coach Knute Rockne thought Southern California might be too strong for his boys. He kept them on defensive work all week, but when, from his movable bed on the sidelines, he saw them scored on, he decided the best defence was attack. Carideo and Savoldo did what was expected of them after that and Southern California's Musick missed the extra point that would have tied the score. Notre Dame 13, U. S. C. 12.
Harvard wanted to save its regulars for Yale but had to put them in to beat a tough, unmannerly little team from Worcester, Mass. Harvard 12, Holy Cross 6.
Against Dickinson the Army took a light drill without music. 89--7.
The Navy's sawmill buzzed through Wake Forest, 61--0.
Gentle gained an average of eight yards every time he took the ball--172 yards in all. He scored Penn's first touchdown, made extra points after its first and second, did most of the punting against a Columbia team outclassed by the Gentlemen. 20--0.
Encouraged by numerous screaming girls who had come up for house-party week. Williams neatly won the Little Three championship from Amherst, 19--0.
Octavius ("Toby") Uansa, a back born in Germany and brought up in Pittsburgh, played the first 14 minutes against Carnegie Tech. When he sat down for a rest the score was 21 to 0. When he trotted to the showers at the end of the game, it was 34 to 13.
A good team even without Alton Marsters, Dartmouth made the first touchdown. Then Cornell picked up a couple arid kicked the goals. Dartmouth got another but was still behind. In the last 60 seconds of the week's most exciting game, the Dartmouth backs plugged out a touchdown the way they do in football movies. Dartmouth 18, Cornell 14.
There was nothing to choose between the two lines but Colgate's backfield was a little faster, their passes more accurate, Colgate 21, Syracuse 0.
Chunky McEver once more showed that short legs are the legs for muddy weather. Tennessee 13, Yanderbilt 0.
Washington & Lee played Virginia for the southern booby prize and tied, 13 to 13.
Beating the Army had made Illinois the choice against Chicago's Coach Stagg and his quarterback son. Sure enough Frosty Peters and Schultz and Yanuskus did the trick. 20--6.*
Georgia Tech managed to play even with Alabama until Tony Holm broke loose. Alabama 14, Georgia Tech 0.
Last week Tackle Henry Luoma of Santa Clara died of appendicitis. After attending church services for him, his team bewildered Stanford with their passes and even held huge Herb Fleischhacker and his friends when they came through the line. Santa Clara 13, Stanford 7.
*The day was "Dad's Day" at Urbana, Ill. At two a.m., morning after the game, Sheriff Elmer Shoaff and his stalwart deputies raided the Gamma Eta Gamma fraternity house, arrested four students there, charged them with legging home-made gin to fellow students. Ten gallons of alcohol were found stored in a trunk.