Football: Nov. 1, 1926

The last period was almost over. The two teams were tangled on Dartmouth’s 48-yard line with Dartmouth leading, 12-10, when French of Harvard got clear on a line play and ran for a touchdown. Score: Harvard, 16; Dartmouth, 12.

Friedman, Molenda and their Michigan mates threw eleven passes against Illinois and completed only four of them. But two of those led to field goals, and a third to a touchdown. Score: Michigan, 13; Illinois, 0.

Southern California hungered for eleven years; last week hungered no more; chewed up the Golden Bears (University of California). Score: 27-0.

In the rain at Franklin Field, Penn met Williams for the first time since 1892 and sent Murphy and Rogers and Paul Scull thundering through the line again and again for a 36-0 score.

Lehigh, coming to Princeton, seemed stagestruck; for two periods their backs did nothing but kick against a Princeton eleven which, improved and chastened after a naval defeat, tramped through the water to win, 7 to 6.

Minnesota’s array of padded gophers organized a private hell on the Wabash, impaired only by a single touchdown. Score: Minnesota, 67; Wabash, 7.

Forty-one thousand persons, including Vice President Dawes, saw the hunchbacks of Notre Dame come out in silk football pants (an innovation designed to lighten the uniform) and wrestle up and down the field while the cheering section bellowed “Wynn.” That gentleman, together with Back Edwards and Hearndon, managed in the last period to penetrate Northwestern’s strong defense. Score: Notre Dame, 6; Northwestern, 0.

Archoska, Nicolello, Flanagan and Barbuti, successfully defended their respective gods and countries against the menace of Penn State. Score: Syracuse, 10; Penn State, 0.

The fears that the venerable A. A. Stagg has piled up year by year came home to him like a nightmare and his big Maroon team crumpled before eleven uneasy, shifting boys from Purdue. Score: Purdue, 6; Chicago, 0.

Colgate had carried the ball 60 yards. On the last down, with a minute to play, they had a foot to go. Signals were called; a desperate Navy team plunged into the scrimmage, and then a few sharp-eyed watchers saw the ball lying on the ground behind the scrum. Russel Lloyd of the Navy saw it too. He picked it up and ran 99 yards for a touchdown that proved the unsoundness of the adage about battles and the strong. Score: Navy, 13; Colgate, 7.

On a day of surprises, the biggest was found in the package that Brown sent to New Haven. It contained, among other things, a live Brown bear for a mascot, and some enormous linesmen who spent a jolly afternoon ramming their muzzles into Yale’s honeycomb. A Brown touchdown in the first period was the only score of the game.