Football

Michigan had Tom Harmon. Pennsylvania had Francis Xavier Reagan. Last week, as undefeated Penn went to Ann Arbor to tackle unbeaten Michigan, sportswriters set the stage for a Duel of the Century between two great halfbacks. Reagan's spectacular record this autumn almost matched Harmon's: ten touchdowns to Harmon's eleven, 156 yards gained a game to Harmon's 158. Reagan's superb punting, passing and running had made Penn a candidate for the mythical U. S. football championship.

Reagan was nervous. He hurried his punts, twice passed into opponents' hands, made a net gain of only ten yards in twelve tries from scrimmage. Meanwhile Harmon rolled up his sleeves and went to work against the tough Pennsylvania line. In the first few minutes, thanks to a Penn fumble, Michigan had the ball on Penn's 19-yard line. Michigan faked a line buck, tossed a lateral to Harmon and he romped over for a touchdown. He also kicked the point. In the third period, in approximately the same spot, Michigan started what looked like the same play. The whole Penn team swarmed in on Harmon, who calmly tossed a forward pass for another touchdown. Running, passing and kicking until he was so exhausted that on one occasion he had to slow down in the midst of an end run, Harmon played a full 60 minutes, wound up with his shirt half torn off his back but still pitching successful passes. Final score: Harmon, 14; Reagan, 0.

> Second biggest game of the week was Cornell v. Ohio State. Last year Cornell won an upset victory over mighty Ohio, Big Ten champions. Reason for the victory was Cornell's Halfback Walter Scholl, who ran 79 yards for one touchdown, passed 63 for another. Last week Ohio State went to Ithaca for revenge. Smothering Cornell passers, charging furiously through Cornell's line, Ohio bulled over for a touchdown in the first period, yielded one to Cornell in the second. Then Ohio fought Cornell to a standstill. At the end of the third period, Walter Scholl went into the game, ripped off 33 yards for a first down on Ohio's six-yard line. That resulted in a touchdown, turned the tide. Cornell won, 21-to-7.

> Last year Clark Daniel Shaughnessy, coaching the University of Chicago's football team, failed to win a conference game, saw his pupils take a humiliating 85-to-0 licking from Michigan. At season's end, Chicago dropped football and Shaughnessy went to coach Stanford. Last week Stanford, with virtually the same team that won only one game in 1939, trounced Southern California with two touchdowns in the game's last 90 seconds, thus winning its fifth victory and becoming the Pacific Coast's likeliest representative in the Rose Bowl game.

> Another garrison finish: at Baker Field, after Columbia and Syracuse had struggled scorelessly for more than 59 minutes, Syracuse's 145-pound Sophomore Leland Morris drop-kicked a field goal in the last 40 seconds, upset Columbia 3-to-0.

> Also upset were Fordham (by St. Mary's, playing its first season without Slip Madigan as coach); University of Texas (by Rice); Holy Cross (by Brown). Still undefeated and leaders in the running for the mythical championship at the season's halfway mark were Michigan, Northwestern, Minnesota, Cornell, Notre Dame, Tennessee, Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College.

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