Upsetting Afternoon

The game in Yale Bowl started just as expected. Early in the second quarter Army recovered an Eli fumble, went 46 yds. in five plays to score. It hardly seemed to matter that Cadet Ralph Chesnauskas missed the extra point. A few minutes later the West Pointers picked up another fumble, and they were rolling once more. The big question seemed to be not how badly would Yale be beaten, but how badly would Yale be beaten up.

Last year Earl Blaik's Black Knights charged over the Elis, 48-7, and battered them so badly that afterwards Yale was little more than a setup for Princeton and Harvard. This time things looked just as bad. It was small consolation that this was the last meeting in a rivalry dating back to 1893. Like the rest of the Ivy League, Yale next season will start taking on only teams of its own caliber.

But someone forgot to tell the Yale team to lie down and take its licking. An intercepted pass called a halt to Army's march, and the Yale line began to manhandle West Point. Army Quarterback Don Holleder was rushed so badly that his first eight passes were failures. Then it was Army's turn to fumble. Yale recovered, scored and kicked the extra point.

Through the rest of the game Yale Captain Phil Tarasovic and his fellow linemen kept the pressure on, and the Yale backs began to break loose. Surprisingly, it was Army that fell apart. In the fourth quarter Yale scored once more, kicked the extra point again and held Army to a last, late touchdown that made no difference at all.

The bowl boiled over: Yale had not looked so spectacular since the days of Clint Frank and Al Hessberg. On the field, the players were so hopped up that they kept right on belting each other around after the final gun. But on the board the score remained: Yale 14, Army 12.

P:In another swan song to an old series, the University of Pennsylvania took the beating it was supposed to from powerful Notre Dame. But before they ran out of gas, the Quakers did themselves proud. Frank Riepl, a sophomore halfback starting his first college game, caught the Notre Dame kickoff and ran 108 yds. for a touchdown. Penn kept running through the first half and held the Irish to a 14-14 tie. Then they were overpowered. Final score: Notre Dame 46, Penn 14.

P:Anotherunknown sophomore, Illinois' Halfback Bob Mitchell, led his team to a totally unexpected victory over high-riding Michigan. A third-quarter substitute, Mitchell wasted little time taking off on a 64-yd. touchdown run that put the Illini out in front. Final score: Illinois 25, Michigan 6.

P:Trying hard to make up for the loss of its passing star, Royce Flippin, Princeton matched touchdown passes with a surprisingly stubborn Harvard team, but lost by an extra point: Harvard 7, Princeton 6.

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