Monday, Nov. 19, 1934
Football
Dazzled by double spinners, triple reverses, fake forwards and lateral-pass combinations, in which as many as six men handled the ball, Tulane was caught flat-footed against Andy Kerr's dexterous Colgate team, 20-to-6.
Outplayed by Notre Dame, Navy, undefeated in November for the first time in eight years, clung desperately to a three-point lead from Cutter's place-kick in the second quarter. In the last two minutes of the game, both teams scored--first Navy on a forward pass, then Notre Dame two plays later when Pilney ran the kick-off back to Navy's 23-yd. line. Navy 10, Notre Dame 6.
Pittsburgh's Mike Nicksick made all four touchdowns that gave Nebraska's Cornhuskers their worst beating in three years, 25-to-6.
Apparently clinching the job of playing in the Rose Bowl Jan. 1, Stanford smashed Washington, 24-to-0.
Huey Long offered to bet that Louisiana State could beat Minnesota and Alabama on the same afternoon. Having made one member of the team a State Senator (see p. 17), he promised colonelcies to all State players who made touchdowns against George Washington University. Bert Yates made the one that enabled Louisiana to squeak through, 6-to-0.
Biggest crowd of the week (65,000) saw Southern California, with Quarterback Irvine ("Cotton") Warburton on the sidelines, play its best game of the season, only to lose to California, 7-to-2.
Coach Bernie Bierman of Minnesota allowed his team to give up the stratagem of kicking on second down through the first half, making no effort to score until the second. Result: a crushing victory over Indiana, 30-to-0, in which Minnesota scored twice in the first quarter, outrushed its opponents 290 yd. to 37.
Only major team in the U. S. unbeaten and untied for two years, Princeton warmed up for Yale against Lehigh. Halfback Garrett Benjamin ("Garry") LeVan, benched with a bad knee earlier this season, showed he was completely hale again by scoring twice in the first period. In the second, with LeVan on the sidelines. Princeton made three touchdowns in four plays. By the time the game was over, Coach Crisler had used three full teams. Score of Princeton's 15th straight victory, 54-to-0.
Rice, onetime doormat of the Southwest Conference, had by last week won six games in a row against opponents like Purdue, Texas, Southern Methodist, piled up 129 points to 22. A tricky pass in the second quarter against Arkansas brought this year's conference title closer, 7-to-0.
Alabama's Crimson Tide swamped Clemson. 40-to-0.
Buckler and Stancook smashed big holes in an inexperienced Harvard line while Army did its scoring in the first half, 27-to-6.
Ending an 11-year series with Yale in which the score was five games all, Georgia's Bulldogs took the rubber, 14-10-7.
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