Football

There are only a few changes in the rules this year: a player cannot make a fair catch unless the ball has gone over the scrimmage line. Coaches on the bench are not allowed to utter abusive remarks. Players coming out of a huddle must hesitate at least one second before the ball is put in play.

When Washington State got a touchdown in the first quarter, the crowd just thought that California was taking it easy. But the Cougars, drilled and conditioned to a perfection seldom reached by an October team, field-goaled in the second period and then went over the line for a touchdown that rounded off the first important upset of the year. Washington State 16, California 0.

Southern Methodist of Texas, one of the few unbeaten teams of 1929, forced Coach Knute Rockne to send in his regulars at the start of the second period. Even then Notre Dame did not get the winning touchdown until shortly before the last whistle. Score: Notre Dame 20, Southern Methodist 14.

Midget Albie Booth wore stockings last week for a change, but they did not interfere with the two long runs he made for touchdowns. Yale beat a good Maryland team, 40 to 13.

Rumored to be terrible, Princeton showed more speed than anyone expected. In spite of a scoreless second half, they did not need Halfback James's 85-yd. run to beat Amherst, 23 to 0.

Eddie Mays, Bernie White and Jack Crickard were out with injuries, but the Harvard backfield had enough without them to take a dull, one-sided game from Vermont, 35 to 0. Harvard's second string beat the Coast Guard cadets 33 to 0.

Baker, Heller, Walinchus and Hood of Pittsburgh's backfield got more of a work-out than they expected against some tough West Virginians. Pittsburgh 16, West Virginia 0.

Cornell, powerful but loosely drilled, rolled over Niagara 61 to 14.

Substitute Halfback Johnny Askew grabbed passes meant for Minnesota men and himself tossed the ball accurately forward and from side to side, ran through broken fields fast and hard. Vanderbilt 33, Minnesota 7.

In a line-bucking contest, Coach Zuppke's Illinois men were just one touchdown and goal better than Iowa State. Score: 7 to 0.

Ohio State's regulars could not get there but the substitutes were fresh enough to rout a tired Indiana team, 23 to 0.

Michigan was able but conservative.

So was Michigan State. The result was a dull, scoreless tie. For the first time in 40 years Duke's-- line charged hard enough and their backs ran fast enough to beat Virginia. Duke 32, Virginia 0. Louisiana's passing was too complicated to be solved, but the Mexican team showed they have learned something since they took up football last year under Reginald Root of Yale. Louisiana 33, Mexico 0.

* Trinity College until 1924, when the late great capitalist Tobaccoman James Buchanan Duke endowed it with a $40,000,000 trust fund.

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