Football

Although last Saturday was an important day in the ripening football season, not a single pigskin sailed over a goal-bar anywhere in the U. S. Not a single fullback sent a pigskin away for a punt of even 20 feet, and no back of any other denomination gained so much as a yard with a pigskin in the crook of his arm. This and that, to be sure, was done with footballs, but footballs are not made of pigskin. They are made of cowhide-- a startling fact made public in the advance notices for a congress of leather producers which will meet in Chicago next month. But although deluded about the material in the leather-covered bladder they fell on, ran with, kicked, bit, clutched and groaned over, the football players of the U. S. accomplished last Saturday even more than usual:

Like a new cigaret-case, the game between Illinois and Iowa opened and closed with a snap. "Red" Grange (Ill.) picked up the opening kick-off and ran 80 yards for a touchdown in the last minute of the last half, with the score 10 to 6 against his team. "Cowboy Knick" Kutsch (Iowa) ran 32 yards to the Illinois one-yard line; crossed it on the next play as the whistle blew. Score: Iowa 12; Illinois 10.

Michigan, knowing like Illinois the value of a quick start, scored two touchdowns in the first five minutes of its game with Wisconsin. Score: Michigan 21; Wisconsin 0.

Little Robert Curley, Chicago quarterback, kicked two field goals in the third period to beat Northwestern, 6 to 0.

Harvard men have a curious theory that loud and continual repetition of the name of their institution will excite their athletes to such a degree that nothing can withstand them. The Harvard cheer, therefore, consists of braying repetition of the word "Harvard," mixed with a stammer of rah-rahs. Wretched interference and a missed try for goal discredited cheer and theory in favor of a stout team from Holy Cross. Score: Holy Cross 7; Harvard 6.

When Quarterback Ewing (Princeton) kicked a field goal in the first quarter, Fullback Shapley (Navy) pounded the line until his team was near enough for Quarterback Hamilton to kick its mate. When Caulk- ins (Princeton) picked up a fumbled pass and ran 95 yards, to place Princeton in position for a touchdown, Fullback Shapley ran 35 yards to knot the score into a shapely tie, 10 to 10.

Like Michigan, like Illinois, a cannonading team from the University of Pennsylvania gave proof that football games are apt to be won in the first half. Against Yale, it scored two early touchdowns, and --for all that Yale could do--kept its lead to win by a nip and a field goal, 16 to 13.

Last year Cornell's high-powered applecart was ditched by Rutgers; this year, with a remodeled chassis, four wheels (Carpenter, Gassner, Fratt, Butterfield) and no brakes, it flattened this small thank-you-ma'am entirely. Score: Cornell 41; Rutgers 0.

Far famed is Halfback Eddie Tryon, the hardest blob in Colgate's tube, but he met his match--and who would it be but Dinty Moore, red-haired Lafayette quarterback? Once Dinty Moore intercepted a Tryon pass that would have meant a touchdown, and ran it back to midfield; over and over he gained. Score: Colgate 7; Lafayette 7.

Coach Knute Rockne, Merlin of football, shuffled his big squad like a pack of cards, sent in quarterback, fullback, halfback--eveyone, in fact, but the hunchback of Notre Dame. Even wizards cannot have a great team every year, and against an Army eleven that looked very much like a great team, his strategy could accomplish little. Score: Army 27; Notre Dame 0.