Football Matches

Wow--Wow--WOW--WOW-- WOW! Hear that Tiger roar! Far above Cayuga's waters, Watch the Red Team score. Three, cheers for Old Nassau, my boys, Three cheers, and one more yell, O hail to thee, our Alma Mater, Hail, all hail, Cornell!

Sing to the colors that float in the light, Hurrah for the Yellow and the Blue; On Wisconsin, on Wisconsin, Bully for Old Purdue! March, march on down the field-- Men of the Scarlet and the Gray; Bulldog, Bulldog, Bow-wow-wow-- Watch that Army play! --GRANTLAND RICE

The crew coxswain is a wizened creature, pale and weak from worry and reducing. All he needs is a shrill voice and a pair of skinny hands to work the rudder. Yet it is he who gives commands to the eight hulking beasts ahead of him. St. Bonaventure College plays football with a coxswain instead of a quarterback. Francis Flynn badgered and generalled ten great brutes to a 57-0 victory over Alfred. Despairing of their clumsy, earnest efforts, he himself carried the ball 310 yards, once for 93 and touchdown. He is a quarterback, captain of the eleven, weighs 117.

At New York University, also, they sacrificed their little ones in the arena. Against the hungry Rutgers horde 125-lb. Harry Hormel played left halfback, scored thrice, risked constant annihilation as his team annihilated Rutgers 60-6.

At Yale they boil their enemies in brawn. Only two of the team that started against Army are stunted under six feet. Yale's pachyderms on the line average 192, behind the line 180. This gargantuan group galloped gravely through Army 10-6, despite the sinewy protests of the most seasoned backfield outside of professional football, Captain Harry Wilson (Penn State) Cagle (Louisiana), Murrell (Minnesota). Just in time did Charles D. Curran, an editor of The Pointer, West Point journal, apologize through the Yale Daily News for an inadvertent, faintly insulting bit of optimism in The Pointer. "Yale will furnish little opposition after the first half."

Princeton's Tiger slunk from its Jersey jungle up to the green field which is Gilmour Dobie's classroom at Cornell. Surly the Tiger sniffed the students; snarled, and slunk three times across the goal line. Facing the beast for the first time in 20 years, Cornell was shattered 10 to 21.

Harvard scuffled tepidly against Dartmouth. Marsters and Lane from Hanover were harsh to Harvard. Greener and greener as the game went on, the score board finally said Dartmouth 30, Harvard 6.

Penn plunged grimly at Chicago and bounced back. For the first time in 29 years Chicago punished Penn, winning for the West the chief intersectional game of the afternoon, 13-7.

The Georgian period in Southern football retained ascendancy: Georgia Tech torturing North Carolina 13-0; Georgia burning Auburn 33-3. At Richmond spectators eyes were glued on Al Barnes, Virginia Military Institute halfback as he crashed 21 yards through University of Maryland. There was another crash. Through a great ragged hole in the massed audience a section of the wooden stands disappeared. Players, horrified, forgot the game; rushed over to assist the rescue. Four score persons were injured; over a dozen seriously.

Playing among themselves Western youths shoved, dodged, went proudly home to show black and blue spots to Alma Mater. Michigan dedicated a brand new back yard that cost $2,000,000, asking Ohio State over to play in it. Ohio State went home, morose because Michigan, boisterous host, won 21-0. Illinois pommeled Northwestern, 7-6; Minnesota bewildered Iowa, 38-0. Notre Dame, wild Irish children, rubbed Indiana in the mud, 19-6.

Stanford spoiled a Pacific afternoon for the Oregon Aggies with three touchdowns and a victory 20-6. California set down the Olympic club 21-7, while Washington solved the problem of State supremacy by wipping Washington State 14-0.

Ireland, uprising against England at soccer football, was suppressed 2-0. England, according to the records for international soccer, is eight times as good as Ireland. Soccer is not for sicklies. One Hufton, Londoner, took a broken arm home with him to the West Ham Club.