Sport: Football in Evening Dress

Atlantic City’s publicity-hungry Chamber of Commerce last week augmented its fat press clipping albums by staging a football game to which spectators were decorously invited to wear evening clothes. On a full-sized football field in Atlantic City’s tremendous Convention Hall, Pennsylvania Military College managed to score a field goal, beat the University of Delaware 3-to-0 in the season’s only in door collegiate football game.

¶The facts that: 1) Pittsburgh had been undefeated this season,2) Notre Dame had defeated Navy and fearsome Minnesota, 3) Notre Dame had un ceremoniously dropped Pittsburgh from future football schedules, combined to make the Pitt-Notre Dame game the most important of the week. At the end of the third period Notre Dame, although consistently outplayed, had a 6-to-0 lead. In the fourth period the weary Notre Dame defense collapsed. Pittsburgh’s Goldberg, Stebbins & Patrick swiftly marched to three touchdowns and Souchak unerringly kicked each extra point. Score: 21-to-6.

¶California’s Coach Stub Allison sat on the sidelines gloomily nibbling his fingers as the University of Washington, 1936 Pacific Coast Conference champions, played his undefeated, untied, supposedly unbeatable team to a 0-to-0 standstill. Fortunately for nervous Coach Allison. the result did not affect California’s top ranking in the Conference. California will perform in the Rose Bowl if it can defeat Oregon and Stanford as easily as it defeated other Conference opponents.

¶Dartmouth had not defeated Princeton since 1913, and when this year’s twice-beaten Princeton team started off to a 9-to-0 lead it looked as though Dartmouth would have to wait another 24 years. Then at the end of the second quarter. Dartmouth’s undefeated Indians commenced to function. By the end of the fourth quarter the Princeton jinx had been undeniably smashed, 33-to-9.

¶Harvard was leading Army 6-to-0 with six minutes to go. Then Harvard fumbled. Cadet Jack Ryan pounced on the ball, bucked the Harvard line for a touchdown and scored the winning point: Army 7, Harvard 6.

¶Sandy Sanford, sophomore end, kicked a 20-yd. field goal at the last minute and Alabama beat Tulane 9-to-6. Undefeated and untied, Alabama continued to hope to play in the Rose Bowl New Year’s Day.

¶When the University of Texas met Baylor last week, Baylor had defeated six consecutive opponents, Texas had defeated one out of six. With four minutes left to play, Texas Halfback Hugh Wolfe, like Alabama’s Sanford, kicked a field goal. Texas won 9-to-6 in the upset-of-the-week.

¶Fordham scored all its touchdowns on forward passes and defeated a big Purdue team, 21-to-3.