Monday, Nov. 16, 1936
Football
Of the most famed backs in football history one was James ("Sleepy Jim1") Crowley, left halfback of Notre Dame's famed "Four Horsemen," currently coach at Fordham. Of the "Seven Mules" who formed the 1924 Notre Dame line, one was Noble Kizer, currently coach at Purdue. Last Saturday, in the week's big game, Purdue's strength was a backfield whose average progress this season has been seven yards per play and two of whose members, John Drake and Cecil Isbell, according to Coach Kizer, were abler than any of the "Four Horsemen." Fordham's strength was a line nicknamed the "Seven Blocks of Granite," who had permitted their goal to be crossed only twice this year and who, according to Coach Crowley, were even stronger than the "Seven Mules."
Of Fordham's "Seven Blocks" the most impressive are a Polish Block and an Italian Block. The Italian is 5-ft. 8-in., 200-lb. Edmund Franco, left tackle, whom Coach Crowley calls the best college lineman he has ever seen. The Pole is 5-ft. 11-in., 190-lb. Center Alexander Franklin Wojciechowicz (pronounced Woe-gee-hoe-wits), whose hobbies are cooking and helping his mother crochet rag rugs. Last week Fordham's Franco, Wojciechowicz & colleagues blocked so efficiently that Purdue's Isbell, Drake & colleagues gained only 54 yards rushing all afternoon, one-third as many as they gained against Minnesota three weeks ago. Masterpiece of the blocks' blocking came in the third quarter, when Halfback Al Gurske was reeling off an 80-yd. run for Fordham's second touchdown. Fordham's first touchdown, by Fullback Joe Dulkie, and a field goal by Quarterback "Handy Andy" Palau, came after Left Guard Nat Pierce had recovered two Purdue fumbles.
Fordham's conviction that its 15-10-0 revenge for last year's 20-to-0 thrashing meant an invitation to the Rose Bowl was expressed by its band. After the game it played California, Here I Come.
Tops on the Pacific Coast, having beaten U.C.L.A., Oregon State, California, and Oregon on successive Saturdays, University of Washington slam-banged its way 70 full yards in the last quarter to stubborn Stanford's 1-ft. line, then fumbled. Later they marched 68 yards to score, but that was not enough. Washington 14, Stanford 14.
Bottoms on the Pacific Coast and none too pleased to be, California's Bears upended Southern California's star Davie Davis, knocked his passes down, whipped their own laterals to anybody wearing blue --including Bob Herwig, the center. California 13, U. S. C. 7.
Sheer statistics of its victory over undefeated Tulane put Alabama's Crimson Tide among the country's pacemakers: 19 first downs, 336 yards gained rushing, 60 yards on four completed passes, five touchdowns, 34-to-7.
Rated the country's No. 1 team by an Associated Press poll, and sure of its first undisputed Big Ten Conference title, Northwestern's Wildcats almost justified Coach LYnn Waldorf's conventional prediction: "We are hanging ripe from the bough, ready for the knock-off." Their four touchdowns against Wisconsin's underrated Badgers were just enough to win, 26-to-18.
Bill Spaulding Jr., son of the football coach at University of California at Los Angeles, is a halfback on his father's team. Andy Kerr Jr. plays on his father's squad at Colgate. Vanderbilt Coach Ray Morrison's Son Jack is a halfback at Southern Methodist. Knute Rockne Jr. is quarterback of the Miami Military Academy team, headed for Notre Dame next year. At Baltimore last week, Bill Ingram, son of Navy's onetime Coach Jonas Ingram and nephew of Navy's onetime Coach Bill Ingram, drop-kicked Navy's third-period field goal that beat Notre Dame, 3-to-0.
"Watch out for a strong team the week after it has been beaten," has been this season's soundest football motto. Watching was all Iowa did when Minnesota, nosed out by Northwestern last fortnight, uncorked 42 players, rolled up a score of 52-to-0.
Princeton's offense, sharpened since its tie with Harvard, rattled off 34 points in as many minutes. Cornell, bug but inexperienced, came back with two touchdowns in three minutes. Coach Crisler rushed his regulars back into the game, stopped the rally with another touchdown, 41-t013.
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