Football Matches

Scorching sun beat from a hot October sky on opening games. Players were carried from fields uninjured; helpless with heat exhaustion. Larger universities used three and four teams to relieve the strain; small colleges with little squads saw their men suffer far more than they will from any snow storms of November.

Famed Notre Dame produced a green but agile team and defeated Coe 28-7 as scouts from later season enemies (Army, Navy, Indiana, Minnesota, Detroit) watched narrowly, scribbled notes.

The highest score of early games was made by Temple (Philadelphia university of 6,000 students) which ripped Blue Ridge to ribbons, 110-0. Blue Ridge is a tiny Maryland institution; enrollment about 180, including girls. So hot was the Philadelphia afternoon that final periods were shortened to 5 minutes. Blue Ridge ran out of substitutes; borrowed three from Temple.

Bradley Polytechnic Institute brought a record of 25 straight victories (including the two-time championship of the "Little 19" of Illinois) to Urbana. The University of Illinois broke Bradley's winning streak 19-0.

Alonzo A. Stagg's University of Chicago squad opened unevenly, losing to Oklahoma 7-13.

In the far west, Oregon won from Pacific 32-6; Southern California from Santa Clara, 52 to 12; while famed Stanford lost to St. Mary's 16-0.

Prospectively redoubtable Army was none too redoubtable against Boston University and Detroit on its first two Saturdays. Thirteen points against the former and a mere 6 against the latter was all the team (most of it) that played the great Navy team to a memorable tie last season could produce. Defense was strong; the opposition failed to score.

Navy opened against the none-too-potent Davis & Elkins. Principally with whiplash forward passes, the government eleven took a 27-0 victory.

Pennsylvania, Cornell, Syracuse, Dartmouth, Brown, New York university, Penn State, showing expected prowess, clambered rapidly and often across goal lines of small college elevens.

Princeton had usual difficulty with Amherst. A 60-yard touchdown and a forward pass from Earl Baruch, which Lowry caught to score, were essential in a 14-0 victory.

Harvard was one of few conspicuous teams to try the new lateral passing game. Swift sidewise tactics bewildered Vermont; forward thrusts scored 21 points to 3.

At New Haven Bowdoin pushed feebly against a heavy Bulldog. Yale 41, Bowdoin 0.

College of the City of New York experimented. Under the white rays of 33,000 watts of electric flood lights they defeated an alumni eleven 5-0 in a night game. Spectators followed the open plays; were puzzled by shadows in line plunges. The traditional grandstand background of spectators, girls, coonskin coats was blotted out. The experiment was deemed unsatisfactory for important games. A white ball was used.