Watch Michigan

Of all the nation's top football teams, Michigan emerged from last week's scrimmaging soundest in wind & limb. In fact, it looked as if Coach Fritz Crisler's men could get a better battle by playing their own second team than they could from anyone they had faced so far. The Michiganders embarrassed poor Pittsburgh, 69 to 0. In its first three games, Michigan has scored 173 points to 13 for its opponents.

Army and Notre Dame, last year's top two, still had their honor intact, but not without a struggle. Army extended its unbeaten sequence to 31 games with a lacklustre 0-to-0 tie with Rose Bowl Champ Illinois. Notre Dame was outrushed by Purdue (89 yards to 128) and managed to win (22 to 7) only on the 14 completed passes of All-America Johnny Lujack.

In Dallas, the University of Texas, rated third in the Associated Press poll after Notre Dame and Michigan, was likewise outrushed by a bruising Oklahoma team, but won. The score: 34 to 14. The hero: sure-armed Bobby Layne, whose throws figured in all of the Texas touchdowns. It was the week's rowdiest game. Oklahoma rooters threw pop bottles and went after the officials, who had to be whisked off the field in a police car.

Other games last week:

P: Two Columbia undergraduates hired a blimp, flew over the Yale campus and dropped 5,000 leaflets bearing a cocky ultimatum: "Your unfeeling leaders have ordered your young men into combat with the irresistible forces of Columbia. Your leaders . . . promise victories. You know what you get. There is still time for you to retire with honor. Surrender. . . . You will be treated humanely." Two days later, Underdog Yale countered with a more orthodox aerial attack (17 completed passes), won 17 to 7.

P: At Madison, California's new Coach Pappy Waldorf returned to his old Midwest haunts with a surprisingly powerful pack of Golden Bears, who pawed Wisconsin to pieces, 48 to 7. In other top-heavy triumphs, Penn State handed de-emphasized Fordham its worst shellacking (75 to 0) since it started playing the game in 1883, and Harvard, playing Virginia, took its worst beating (47 to 0) under Dick Harlow's twelve-year tenure.

P: At New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers beat Princeton (13 to 7) for the third time since 1869,* in football's oldest rivalry.

* When they played the first intercollegiate football game in the U.S.

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