Football

"Widseth, in the pile-up of a line play, hit an opposing player twice in the face after the whistle blew."

This, at Evanston last week, was Referee John Getchell's explanation of the most discussed football penalty of the season. Punishment for unnecessary roughness is 15 yards, but because Northwestern at the end of the third period was already on Minnesota's 13-yd. line and you cannot score on a penalty, Referee Getchell only moved the ball 12 yards to Minnesota's 1-yd. line. On the next two plays, Northwestern failed to gain. On the third, Fullback Steve Toth plowed through tackle, fell face down across the goal line with Andy Uram hanging to him in agonized dismay.

Outrushed 225 yards to 120, Northwestern grimly held its lead against Minnesota's passes thereafter. When the game ended in a driving rain, Toth's touchdown had ended the most sensational winning streak in U. S. football--28 games without a defeat, 21 major victories in a row-- 6-to-0. It had also made Northwestern, with three more games on its schedule (Wisconsin, Michigan, Notre Dame), almost sure of a Big Ten championship and rating as the country's No. 1 team. Northwestern's chief strength this year is in its line and in Fred Vanzo, its huge blocking back. Ace ball carriers are Ollie Adelman, Don Geyer and Don Heap, who after graduating from high school, spent three years getting enough money for college, worked himself up from errand boy to vice president and major stockholder in the campus bookstore.

Score of Harvard's beating by Princeton last year was 35-to-0. This year's experts looked for something more one-sided. Instead, about to leave the game a minute before it ended, spectators shook their heads in amazement at the courage of an inferior team that had kept the margin of the Princeton victory to seven points. A moment later they stopped shaking their heads to watch what was happening on the field. On Princeton's 35-yd. line, Harvard's Halfback Arthur Oakes dropped back, passed to Bob Stuart who caught the ball on the 10-yd. line, dragged two tacklers across the goal line. Allen's place kick made the game, a tie, 14-to-14.

Some fancy line bucking by Jim ("Sugar") Cain and an end run by By Haines gave Washington a 7-point lead that was still there even after three more periods of smart Oregon passing--Washington 7, Oregon 0.

Four first downs in a row put Pitt's ball on Fordham's 3-yd. line. Four line plays in a row failed to put it any closer. A continuation of last year's terrific battle between great defensive teams, the game ended with the same score, 0-to-0.

Still on its way to another Southeastern Conference title, undefeated Louisiana State spread three touchdowns over the last three periods against Vanderbilt, 19-to-0.

Until last year, hampered by a mysterious jinx, Dartmouth had never beaten Yale. Last week Dartmouth was11 points ahead in the last period, but it began to look as though the jinx had come to life again when Yale got one touchdown, advanced to Dartmouth's 1 yd. line with less than a minute to go. On the next play Yale scored but was called back under penalty and the game ended Dartmouth 11, Yale 7.

Stanford earned one touchdown, got a second on a running play that was supposed to be a pass, intercepted a silly U. C. L. A. heave for a third, its first victory of the season, 19-to-6.

Army's Monk Meyer rattled off most of the yardage that produced a touchdown seven plays after the game started. Colgate passes in the second half produced the next two and a 14-to-7 upset.

Marquette's Ray Buivid, hailed as the ablest passer in the U. S., failed to shine as such in a night game against St. Mary's. His long throw to Higgins brought one touchdown but he ran for the two others that gave Marquette's "Golden Avalanche" Rose Bowl stature, 20-to-6.

Nebraska's End Paul Amen, when his teammate Gus Peters fumbled a Missouri pass he had intercepted a moment before, put out his hands and caught the ball. Officials ruled that this freak recovery and the touchdown that resulted were legal. Two more touchdowns gave Nebraska its third straight conference victory of the season: 20-to-0.

In the rain at South Bend, Ind., Notre Dame redeemed itself for last fortnight's rout by Pitt, by nosing out Ohio State, 7-to-2.

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