Football

"Day is done,

Gone the sun,

From the lake,

From the hills,

From the sky;

Safely rest,

All is well,

God is love--"

Three buglers, one at Cambridge, one at New Haven, one at Ithaca, filled three crowded but silent stadia with the long-drawn notes of Taps, in memory of the late Percy Duncan Haughton (TIME, Nov. 3), football coach extraordinary. Thousands of football spectators stood bareheaded the while.

A member of Haughton's 1914 Harvard team (Quarterback Logan) wrote to the Harvard Crimson, suggesting that Soldiers' Field, at Cambridge, be rechristened Haughton Field.

Percy Haughton's widow watched the Columbia team that he had builded sink to defeat before Cornell at Ithaca. Chief cause of this sinking was Ignacio Sadurdino Molinet, 19-year-old native of Cuba, Cornell's 179-pound backfield torpedo. Score: Cornell 14, Columbia 0.

Princeton and Harvard played inconsequential games--Princeton practicing against Swarthmore, 21 to 6; Harvard substitutes chastising Boston College, 13 to 0.

The gray ranks of West Point's cadets marched evenly into the Yale .Bowl. Unawed by militarism, a chunky Eli, Halfback Pond, greeted their team promptly with a plunge, a twist, a struggle, a 48-yard dash for a touchdown. The Army marched and countermarched its backfield squad, right and left and double-time, but only once reached the end of the parade ground. Home marched the cadets, more evenly than ever. Score: Yale 7, Army 7.

Lafayette, unbeaten, took on the Leopard's spots and sought to pounce on Penn, also unbeaten. To no avail. A field goal by Chief Leopard Berry was wiped out by a pass by Chief Quaker McGraw, caught and carried by one Joe Laird. The Leopards went back to Easton, dark bruises mingled with their spots and the score: Penn 6, Lafayette 3. The Quakers rejoiced in being the only unbeaten, untied Eastern team of the season, Pittsburgh having tied Penn's nearest rival, Syracuse, 7 to 7.

Dartmouth's slate, which promises to be as clean as anyone's at the end of the season, was never threatened with a smudge from Brown. Messrs. Hall, Oberlander, Dooley, Leavitt and their assistants travelled 222 yards during an afternoon punctuated with many imperfect passes by Brown. Score: Dartmouth 10, Brown 3.

At Annapolis, two cripples met, one a self-styled lion, one a so-called goat. Limping, hobbling, they tussled until nightfall, when the Navy goat had to admit that the absence of Shapely, one of its curliest horns, was too great a handicap. The Penn State or Nittany lion came off with two field goals. Score: Penn State 6, Navy 0.

High winds rushed through the heavens where Illinois waited on her own field for Iowa. When Iowa came, Red Grange rushed like the winds, sweeping his fellows nearer to the Big Ten championship. Though keenly watched by hawk-eyed Iowa ends, Grange scored two touchdowns in the first period, arranged for a third, threw two passes that gained 86 yards. For Iowa, Quarterback Parkin, of Yale Bowl fame (1922), played stiff breeze to Grange's hurricane. Score: Illinois 36, Iowa 0.

The next most notable Conference events were: Northwestern's first Big Ten success in two years, 17 to 7, from Indiana; a 13-to-0 Michigan onslaught in Minnesota. Chicago, despite gloomy prognostications by her "Old Man," Coach Alonzo Stagg, managed to cope with Purdue, 19 to 6. The Conference championship rested, virtually, between Illinois and Chicago, with the odds on Illinois and Red Grange.

Notre Dame de South Bend, Ind., was a ruthless hostess to the Georgia Technicians, sending them home sorely battered, 34 to 3, a score characteristic of the potential national champions. The Georgian linemen were hardly impressive, permitting substitutes and regulars alike to pass them by with great frequency. But in the Georgian backfield, Fullback Douglas Wycoff covered himself with the day's indvidual glory. His best effort was a 47-yard run to Notre Dame's 1-yard line, an effort cheated ironically by Time, which ended the game as Wycoff came to earth.

In the Missouri Valley, Nebraska's thunderous, cornhusking eleven pulled itself together after a dismaying first Quarter, sent Rhodes and Bloodgood ripping through for a belated harvest. Captain Bond of Missouri persistentfy disputed his team's first defeat. Score: Nebraska 14, Missouri 6.

In the South, Alabama heaped a large score upon the head of Mississippi, 61 to 0; West Virginia smothered Bethany, 71 to 6.

On the Pacific Coast, California prefaced its argument with Southern California with the announcement that the game would terminate athletic relations between the two universities. Leland Stanford was said also to have ruled against further relations with Southern California, holding them to be "not conducive to the best interests of intercollegiate sport."

Then California proceeded to loose her champion Golden Whales, and win 7 to 0. Meantime, Oregon overcame Washington, 7 to 3.