Football

Most of the important college football teams spent last week rolling and pushing on their own gridirons, not venturing to play rivals. Some of the smaller colleges made use of a warm September afternoon for playing their first games with much cursing and lazy snorting but without the readiness, which will be produced by November temperatures, to commit murder or die for victory.

At Colgate, the manager of the team figured out that it cost $110.05 to equip each member of a squad of 50 ... Columbia, planning to "resume athletic relations" with Dartmouth, was trying to build a backfield around a lone veteran called Kumpf . . . Dartmouth would have last year's stars, Captain Black and Alton Marsters . . . Roper of Princeton, who is at his best with raw beef, had a squad with many lettermen . . . three Harvard backs were severely injured in practice . . Captain Donn Greenshields of Penn State was in bed, recovering from pneumonia . . . Knute Rockne, famed Notre Dame coach and journalist, and Coach Pat Page of Indiana, bringing to their rough game a quality hitherto prized only in tea-shops and New England villages, began talking about "football atmosphere" ... In the "Western Conference" so called, Illinois, with 20 lettermen returned, was favored to win another championship.