Sport: Ivy Wonder

Obviously, the two best college football teams were Army and Notre Dame. Which came first would be the subject of noisy, heated and sometimes liquid debate until their big showdown next week. Probably next in line, since both Texas and Tennessee dropped from the unbeaten ranks last week, was—of all things—an Ivy League team. Powerful Pennsylvania stayed in the race by sinking Navy, 32 to 19.

The halfback in Penn clothing who did most to win the game had only a year before worn a Navy uniform—and had been most responsible for Navy’s 1945 triumph over Penn. Elusive Skippy Minis! threw a pass for Penn’s first touchdown, scored three times himself, sat out the second half. Penn’s method, under colorful Coach George (“Call Me George”) Munger is mostly single-wing power, tricked up with a few reverses and a good passing attack. Munger believes in limiting his offense to a few basic plays, uses a metronome to get the timing down pat. Fellow Ivy Leaguers moaned that Penn had outgrown the football played by Harvard, Yale, etc., and once more debated whether to drop Penn from their schedules. But Penn had looked mighty before and then collapsed (last year Army humbled her 61-0). The game with Army two weeks hence should decide whether Penn had really graduated to the “A” league.