Football

Football practice, at institutions where the game is taken seriously, began as far back as August. Last fortnight a few opening games were decided by scores so onesided that they should have embarrassed both sides. Princeton's new coach, Al Wittmer, recovered from an appendectomy sufficiently to order five men off the squad for beer-drinking in Trenton, N. J. Last week the season really started. There are few rule changes; the only important one concerns penalties for fouls committed during the try-for-point after touchdown. Hitherto, the point was forfeited for a foul by the attacking team, awarded for a foul by the defending team. Henceforward, distance penalties will be inflicted, half the distance to the goal line in the case of the defending team.

Mrs. Knute Rockne, widow of Notre Dame's famed coach who was killed in an airplane accident in Kansas last March, watched Notre Dame, undefeated since 1928, open the season against Indiana University. Rockne's successor, Heartley ("Hunk") Anderson, used three teams, uncovered a new right-halfback, Joe Sheeketski who ran 70 yd. for the first of the four touchdowns that won for Notre Dame 25 to 0.

With a sophomore halfback, Miller Draudt, who gained four times as much ground as the whole Amherst team, and a half dozen rudimentary power plays, Princeton started the year with an ominous--in view of other seasons--victory over Amherst, 27 to o.

Seventy-two thousand spectators at

Berkeley, Calif, saw St. Mary's make a touchdown in the first period, another in the third, keep onetime Navy Coach Bill Ingram's University of California team on the defensive between times. St. Mary's 14, California o.

Fifty thousand spectators at Los Angeles saw the Oregon State Beavers gnawed by Orv Mohler who made one touchdown, trimmed by Gaius Shaver who made three, hammered by Ernie Smith who kicked a field goal, trampled by Southern California's Trojans, 30 to 0.

Harvard's new coach and onetime (1916, 1919) halfback, Eddie Casey, who at a Harvard-Yale dinner once called for a steer so that he could slice himself a raw steak, watched his team reach the zoyd. line eight times, the goal-line four times against Bates . Harvard 28, Bates 0.

In addition to Midget Albie Booth, who made the longest run of the game, Yale showed three other able backs and a forward-passing attack, designed by new Assistant Coach Benny Friedman, which was a novelty in New Haven football. The University of Maine's team lost the game 19 to o.

In a forward-passing game, Georgia Tech made two touchdowns in the second half to beat South Carolina 25 to 13.

Ten minutes after they started to play in Evanston, Northwestern had three touchdowns against Nebraska, two by Ernest ("Pug") Rentner, one by Ken Meenan. Nebraska struggled hard for the last three periods, scored in the second. Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone & party, who were booed from the stadium after the third quarter, thus saw all the scoring--Northwestern 19, Nebraska 7.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.