Football Notes

Specialization--in the person of Karl Pfaffman, dropkicker--defeated Princeton in the first of the so-called Big Three (Eastern) games. Harvard rushed the tall and scrawny Pfaffman into the game a moment after Combs, also Harvard, fell on a loose ball. Pfaffman kicked the goal. Later Princeton lost 2 more points on a safety. Final score: Harvard 5, Princeton 0.

A 40-yard forward pass supplemented by a 35-yard run to the goal-line brought Brown's score in the closing minutes of play against Dartmouth up to 14 points. A few seconds previously Brown had scored on a Dartmouth fumble. The desperate rally did not suffice. Dartmouth had scored 16 points on two touchdowns and a place kick. Dartmouth won the game.

Maryland, little-advertised university of the South, nearly dislodged Yale from its position at the top of the Eastern heap (held jointly with Syracuse and Cornell). The invaders smashed two touchdowns across the Blue goal line in the opening period. Yale's belated but stinging retort resulted in two touchdowns and a field goal--16 points. Maryland missed by inches a dropkick that would have won.

Bo McMillan returned to Boston, scene of former football triumphs, when he played quarterback for Centre College, as a coach of heavy-scoring Centenary College. Boston College pounded out a victory over his pupils, 14-0.

The most untoward upset of the week was Nebraska's victory over the hitherto invincible Notre Dame eleven, 14-7. For the second year in succession the Nebraska Cornhuskers have blighted the prospects of Knute Rockne (Notre Dame coach) for national championship considerations. Astute students of the game insist, none the less, that Rockne is the greatest coach now teaching football.

Rockne places his strategic dependence on a bewildering snap shift and persistent forward passing. He gives his men only one scrimmage a week. He looks like a bulldog, has a bulldog's vocabulary. He has lost only three games in six years.

Harold ("Red") Grange, Illinois halfback, made further bids for All- American honors with a 28-yard run through a broken field for the only touchdown against Wisconsin. Score, Illinois 10, Wisconsin 0: Illinois is undefeated in the Big Ten (Western) championship.

Syracuse, unbeaten Eastern eleven, will march out to Lincoln, Neb., on Nov. 24 to meet the team which beat Notre Dame, (but which has lost to Illinois and been held by Missouri and Kansas to a tie).