Waldorf's Winners

In effect, Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf was playing under the shadow of his own goalpost. He knew, when he signed to coach at the University of California, what had befallen his predecessors: eleven out of 18 had been fired (by the school's potent Associated Students Executive Committee) after only one season. And the Cal team Waldorf inherited was virtually the same team that lost seven games last year.

Rotund, easygoing Pappy Waldorf had one thing in his favor: the team was anxious to prove that it was not the players who were responsible for last year's disasters. Several players ran all summer to get their legs in shape; four of them, whose eyes were bad, got fitted with contact lenses. Last week California's Golden Bears scored their fifth straight victory of the season, over Washington State (21-6).

Before California can make Rose Bowl plans it must first get past unbeaten Southern California (which flattened Oregon State last week, 48-6) and once-beaten U.C.L.A. (which defeated Stanford, 39-6).

Other games:

P:At New Haven, Wisconsin scored the upset of the week by beating Yale 9-0.

That left only three major unbeaten teams in the East: Army, which romped over ineffective Virginia Tech, 40-0, Pennsylvania, which ran over Columbia, 34-14, and Penn State, which beat Syracuse, 40-0.

P:At Evanston, III., Michigan, the nation's top rated team, with hardly a huff or puff, blew Northwestern down, 49-21. P:At South Bend, Notre Dame, with Star Johnny Lujack under wraps for most of the game, trounced Nebraska, 31-0. Illinois met Minnesota at Champaign, III., in the week's only big game between unbeaten teams, and Minnesota lost, 40-13. The South's three best unbeaten teams, Texas, Southern Methodist and Georgia Tech, had no trouble keeping their escutcheons unsmudged.

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