Monday, Nov. 02, 1925
Football
Wadded warriors everywhere continued joyously the grim business of football.
Punting his way down the field of the huge Illinois stadium, after two periods of scoreless, alternate rampage, Friedman of Michigan got near enough to Illinois' white posts to kick a goal. "Red" Grange made the longest gain for Illinois-- 15 yards around left end. Score: Michigan 3, Illinois 0.
Smart tricks are in the Dartmouth bag: a triple pass, executed with the polish of a fortune-teller's shuffle; criss-cross plays that befuddled the Harvard backs as much as if they had seen Halfback Oberlander (Dartmouth) take a rabbit out of his helmet. Dark fell before Harvard's last frantic forward pass slipped through groping butterfingers to the ground. Score: Dartmouth 32, Harvard 9.
For four periods Princeton fought itself into a lather on a field as wet as a shampoo, with a ball as slippery as shaving soap, against Colgate. In the last minutes a sophomore from Dayton, Ohio (Abraham Mankat, Colgate) forced a safety by blocking a kick; whereupon his encouraged teammates scored a touchdown that dashed the championship hopes of the last of the Big Three. Score: Colgate 9, Princeton 0.
Thayer, Pennsylvania end, ran fiercely after a pass that seemed already to have gone over his head, caught up with it, shook off one tackier, pushed over another, slanted 20 yards to beat Chicago. Score: Pennsylvania 7, Chicago 0.
Brown dedicated a handsome concrete stadium with ceremonies made impressive by the performance of a mountainous Yale eleven, which traveled there to appall the opposing Mahomets, 20 to 7.
Flannagan of Notre Dame ripped, kicked, butted, burrowed his way to victory against Minnesota in a game marred by many fumbles. Score: Notre Dame 19, Minnesota 7.
Mixing line plunging with line plunging in a very straight football game, Syracuse beat Providence, 48 to 9.
The Navy played its regulars in the first period against Washington College (Chestertown, Md.), then sent in so many players that the list of its substitutions was longer than most company roll-calls. Score: Navy 37, Washington 0.
Playing without the services of Captain Pease and giant Guard Raphael, Columbia downed Williams. Kaplan, Pease's understudy, did well as a field general, ran the team intelligently, tallied two touchdowns. Score: Columbia 26, Williams 0. On a field better suited to the activities of ducks than to the less web-footed endeavors of spike-shod ball-bearers, a muddy team from Pittsburgh beat a muddy team from Carnegie Tech, 12 to 0.
The Army defeated its fourth* Western invader, St. Louis, in a sluggish contest, 19 to 0.
*The three others: Notre Dame (Ind.) 0, Army 27. Knox (Ill.) 7, Army 26. Detroit (Mich.) 6, Army 31-