Football

Fumbles, extemporized plays, mixed signals never yet spoiled a pick-up game, since everyone is out for fun. The 49 Southern Conference players who turned out in Atlanta to help the Shrine children's hospitals, split up into Blues and Cardinals, but there were seven men from Tennessee on the Blues and they knew how to work together. Bobby Dodd's stout leg got off long punts and lank Buddy Hackman spun around ends, caught long passes. In the last period the Blue line softened, letting through Jones of Georgia Tech and Bethea of Florida--too late. North 21, South 12.

Frosty Peters of Illinois, Brazil of Detroit, Glasgow of Iowa, Nagurski of Minnesota--they were the East backfield. Clark of Colorado State, Benny Lom of California, Pomeroy of Utah, Gillmore of Oregon State were the West. Peters out-punted Lom, as many said he would, and even the big Texans and Californians in the Western line could not stop Nagurski's bucks. East 19, West 7.

Red Rabbit Jarrett of North Dakota got in the game at Denver whispering ''Give me the ball." Rocky Mountain stopped him 20 yards up the field but the North Central team--pick-ups from the Dakotas and Iowa--went on to a touchdown, playing as if they had trained together all season. Rocky Mountain was a scramble of uncoordinated tricks until the last period when it turned into a team and Thorn of Brigham Young pricked North Central's side. North Central 13, Rocky Mountain 6.

All-American Pest Welch of Purdue did not score, but he banged up the lighter Southwest line so badly that his friends went through without much trouble. Grubbs of Texas Christian throwing passes to Geis of Arkansas got the Southwest out of trouble for a while, but not permanently. Midwest 25, Southwest 12.

Pittsburgh would feel the heat and be tired from the ride, and who was Pittsburgh, anyway? In their nine straight victories this year they had not played the kind of stuff that was on Southern California's schedule. So figured Californians, more confident than ever when they felt the blaze of sunlight in the Rose Bowl. Every seat had been said for weeks. A whistle pricked the piled heat, and a minute later trim, curly-haired, squat Toby Uansa of Pittsburgh jumped through left tackle, snaked 68 yards. His wits spun after the tackle and he played in too close. Racehorse Russell Saunders twitched the ball to Edelson for one score, Arbelbide fell on a fumble that brought in another. Wild Pitt plunges and passes in the second half made a score, but the big Trojan line was charging properly, Duffield's boot lifting the ball as though it were full of gas and Racehorse Russell's cleats cutting turf. Southern California 47, Pittsburgh 14 was the most decisive beating that a loser has ever taken in the Tournament of Roses.

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