Football

Old Mother Yale rushed to the Princeton cupboard. Her bulldogs hungered for bones. When she got there, she was agreeably surprised to discover a tidy store--a field goal, a touchdown. The field goal, as fine a specimen as ever was seen, was executed by Halfback Scott at the Princeton 45-yard line. The touchdown was deftly forward-passed by Halfback Pond to Tackle Joss. Princeton's portion was the same bitter, black medicine she had administered to Harvard the week before, medicine that many have to take after dining richly. Score: Yale 10, Princeton 0.

Further misfortune befell Little Red Riding Harvard. This time the grandmother was Bruin Brown. A wild backward pass from Acting-Centre Robb of Harvard flew over Halfback Mather's head, was snared by Keefer, visiting halfback. Forward passes brought Brown near the Harvard goal. Klump clumped over. Spectators at this game eyed with interest the Brown centre, Eckstein, vendor of blood*! Score: Brown 7, Harvard 0.

At West Point, Columbia piled into the Army most manfully. Cadets Wilson and Gilmore ripped through against her, but Koppisch, Pease and Empringham ripped right back. Had Pease not permitted the ball to slither from his grasp on his own 4-yard line, the score might not have been 14 to 14.

Influenza and other ills were in the chilly breath of a pestilential slush-storm on Franklin Field, Philadelphia. Yet 54,000 hardy perennials sat by to watch Penn and Penn State struggle through a punting duel in the mud. Back and forth sailed the slimy ball, each team trying a field goal now and then. The mud won. Score: Penn 0, Penn State 0.

In Manhattan, grim men from Dartmouth and Cornell grappled at the Polo Grounds. Finding the Cornell line muscular, Dartmouth swept the ends, peppered 31 passes. Cornell stuck to her plugging game. The upshot was 27 to 14. Dartmouth's first success in four years against the dwellers "on the gray rock height."

Rugged Rutgers rolled up only six touchdowns against New York University. The lighter team's spirit was commendable. Even with hulking Homer Hazel's All-American punts and heft driving them back, the New Yorkers threatened a touchdown, scored a field goal. Score: Rutgers 41, N. Y. U. 3.

Williams, as slated, won the "Little Three" (Amherst, Williams, Wesleyan) championship with a brusque attack. Score: Williams 27,. Amherst 6.

Who suddenly killed Cock Robin? "I did!" cried Minnesota. "I marked him sure. I wounded him sore." Robin Red Grange, most brilliant of backs, took the field at Minneapolis with his fellow Illini and at once raced off around end for a touchdown. He started other races, but Minnesota ends crashed him, Minnesota secondary defense heaped upon him. In the second period, he was subdued. In the third, his arm hung limp, he left the field for the season. Meanwhile, Minnesota's offense plunged, pounded, plowed. Illinois sank back to third in the Conference standing. Score: Minnesota 20, Illinois 7.

Chicago rode the Illinois defeat, and a meagre 3-to-0 win from North- western, to top notch in the Big Ten. Wisconsin, beaten 21 to 7 that day by Iowa, stood as the last obstacle between Stagg's men and a title. The other Conference game was between Michigan and Ohio State, wherein the Wolverines lashed themselves into a last-period fury. Score: Michigan 10, Ohio 6.

Notre Dame gave over barnstorming and received Nebraska at South Bend, Ind., where Coach Rockne paid his guests the dubious courtesy of starting a string of substitutes. He thought better of this when Nebraska promptly threatened, and sent out the regulars to perform as of yore. Perform they did, convincingly as ever, wiping out the Cornhuskers' victories in 1922 and 1923 with counts that totted up 34 to Nebraska's fruitless 6. "National champions," said Sportdom.

Major disturbances in the Missouri Valley were noted where Kansas was crushing Oklahoma 20 to 0, where Missouri was crushing Washington (of St. Louis) 35 to 0, where Drake was eking out a 7-to-6 margin over the Kansas Aggies.

When the sun had set on Eastern games, it was shining high where California overran Nevada 27 to 0, where Leland Stanford thrashed Montana 41 to 3, where Oregon and Washington State wrangled in a 7-to-7 tie. Southern California, who plays the Notre Dame Champions on Christmas Day, fell upon Whittier 51 to 0.

In the South, the bigger and better games were: Centre 17, Alabama 0. Vanderbilt 3, Georgia Tech 0: West Virginia 6, Washington and Lee 0; Southern Methodist 7, Baylor 7; Texas 13, Texas Christian U. 0.

His teammates claimed a "world record"* for "Frosty" Peters, captain of the Montana State Freshmen, after he had propelled 17 field goals over a crossbar defended by the Billings (Mont.) Polytechnic Institute in a game played at Bozeman, Mont. "Frosty" and his men won 64 to 0.

*This fall, to help pay his way through college, Centre Eckstein sold four pints of his lifeblood at $25 a pint, to anemic pa- tients. Had his coaches not remonstrated, he would have sold more.

*Previous records were: High School-- Griggs of Exeter (Calif.) H.S., 15 field goals against Hanford High, 1915. College -- Robertson, of Purdue. 7 field goals against Ruse Polytechnic, 1900.