Football

All the excitement of the Army-Yale game came in two minutes at the beginning of the last quarter. Army finished a long march with a touchdown. Parker, who caught the kickoff, ran it back 88 yd. for a touchdown which tied the score. Then, on the next play, there occurred the accident which turned the game, for both teams and such of the 75,000 spectators as guessed what had happened, into an appalling tragedy.

Lassiter caught the Army kick-off and was downed on the Yale 22-yd. line. Lassiter got up but an Army end who had tried to tackle him did not. He, Richard Brinsley Sheridan,* of Augusta, Ga., lay motionless, sprawled on his back. The Army trainer ran out from the sidelines, knelt beside Sheridan. Then two cadets lifted Sheridan onto a stretcher and carried him off the field. The game continued and ended in a 6 to 6 tie.

At New Haven Hospital, where Sheridan was taken in an ambulance, he was attended by three doctors, one of whom was Dr. Harvey Cushing, famed brain and nerve specialist. The great Yaleman and disciple of the late great Sir William Osler was in New Haven for a surgeons' conference on the day of the game. Dr. Cushing found that Sheridan had a broken neck, said he might live, under artificial respiration, for minutes, hours or days. After 48 hours he died. He was buried with full military honors due a soldier fallen in the Service of his country.

Sparling's touchdown, ending a first half in which an underrated California team had outplayed Southern California, gave Southern California its fourth Conference victory of the year, 6 to 0.

Tulane has a Green Wave which made Flotsam out of Georgia Tech, 33 to 0, with a consistently sweeping attack lead by left-halfback Don Zimmerman, who made one of Tulane's five touchdowns, one of Tulane's three extra points.

When Pittsburgh shelled the Notre Dame line at the beginning of the game, Notre Dame started throwing passes. They turned out well enough to earn Notre Dame's 22nd victory, with no defeats, since 1929--25 to 12.

With a new faculty committee to pass on the eligibility of players and a new coach (Harvey Harman, replacing Lud Wray), Penn came up against one of the strongest teams in the West--Wisconsin, which had beaten Purdue the week before. Wisconsin made two touchdowns but Penn's 204-lb. fullback, Carl Perina, made one also and his teammates made three more. Penn 27, Wisconsin 13.

The Texas following spelled out '"Howdy" in the Harvard stadium. Harvard showed Texas how, 35 to 7.

Princeton amazed its most loyal adherents by holding Navy to two touchdowns and a field goal--15 to 0.

The most impressively staged Big Ten game was at Champaign, Ill., where a crowd of 35,000 was present for homecoming festivities and to see Illinois play Michigan. Michigan made a point for every thousand spectators, won by 35 to 0 --the worst beating an Illinois team coached by Robert Zuppke had ever sustained. Northwestern, favored for this year's Big Ten championship, bottled Ohio's best backs, gained 371 yd. from scrimmage, won, 10 to 0, with Rentner's touchdown, Olson's extra point and field goal. Minnesota swamped Iowa 34 to 0 and Indiana, in a feebly patronized game, beat Chicago, 32 to 6.

*Whose ancestors were no relatives of Playwright Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (1751--1810), nor of Union General Philip Henry Sheridan (1831--88)--see p. 55.

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