Football Matches

Football is done again. Save for a scattering of Southern and Pacific conflicts, Thanksgiving and the succeeding Saturday sufficed to settle scores for 1927.

Missouri ploughed peevishly through Oklahoma, after the latter had scored unexpectedly in the opening period. Missouri won the game 20-7 and with it the Missouri Valley Conference championship.

Pittsburgh made further trouble for itself by scattering Penn State 30-0. By the victory the unbeaten Pittsburghers qualified to clash with Stanford New Year's Day in California.

New York University took a train to Nebraska to have their season's stirring efforts shattered. Hitherto unbeaten, the N. Y. eleven dropped behind 19-0; fought back to 19-18 in the final quarter; lost (for the first time this season) 27-18.

Columbia was the astounding feature of the week. In six seasons against Syracuse they have lost five and tied one. This year they had defeated no major team. Two interrupted punts won for Columbia 14-7.

Coach Gilmour Dobie, bloomer from Cornell, permitted himself the hitherto undreamed of liberty of stating that Cornell would win. Possibly he was indulging himself in sarcasm. Penn's hard eleven beat Cornell's softer eleven a little worse than expected, 35-0.

On a rain-soaked Rochester gridiron tiny Hobart destroyed a rival of over 30 years. After losing only once all autumn, Rochester lost to their dearest enemy 7-33.

Another wicked rivalry passed an indeterminate afternoon in the drizzle at Providence. Brown 0, Colgate 0.

In the South, Washington & Jefferson, yet unbeaten, made 19 first downs to West Virginia's three. But West Virginia made six points to six for W. & J. Georgia, unbeaten and untied, stormed over Alabama for the first time in six years, 20-6. At Winthrop, Mass., seven went to the hospital, but net from football injuries. Revere High School followers snatched the Winthrop High School banner. Ensued a riot; folk in the stands peppered folk on the field with heavy rocks. A neighboring garrison of U. S. soldiers was summoned; cleared the field with bayonets, sustaining six casualties. The game proceeded. Revere snatched the game 18-7.

Thirty-seven years ago an Army eleven raced onto the field in patchy uniforms, handsewn by kindly wives of West Point officers. Army had no time or money for football. Navy won the game. Army has now found time & money. Before untold dignitaries and 70,000, Army beat the Navy in Manhattan. Bewildered by the force of Navy's unexpected fury, Army trailed by two points at the half; awoke rudely to win 14-9.

At Chicago the West and the Far West entertained the largest crowd in football history, 114,000.* Southern California and Notre Dame, considered by some the best in their sectors, struggled savagely on a slippery field. Twice the far westerners missed forward passes that seemed certain touchdowns; once the far westerners failed to kick the goal from touchdown. Notre Dame won 7-6.

*There were 110,000 present at the Army-Navy game in Chicago a year ago.