Sport: Football Fine

In a Santa Barbara, Calif, courtroom last Thursday Judge Fred T. Harsh glanced sharply at a young man arraigned before him for speeding, twinkled, ruled: “I’m fining you $10—or two touchdowns against Redlands.” Next night Halfback Howard Yeager of Santa Barbara State College worked off his fine by plunging 12 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter, pulling down a 21-yd. pass behind the goal line for another in the second quarter. Final score: Santa Barbara 31, Redlands 0.

In Stillwater, Minn., 1,415 inmates of the State prison, including men who had never heard a radio before, filed into their auditorium to hear a broadcast supplemented by a wall chart, of a game in which Minnesota’s Golden Gophers galloped through Michigan, 39-to-6.

Unusual as these incidents were, they were no more surprising than many another happening on the nation’s football fields last week:

¶Three times in the past ten years a great Notre Dame team had been upset by Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Tech. Last week, an undefeated Notre Dame eleven gained 235 yards by rushing, to Carnegie’s seven, made 15 first downs, to Carnegie’s two. But at the end stubborn Carnegie Tech was ahead by the margin of a field goal. Score: 9-to-7.

¶ Last time Yale beat Army was in 1929, when little Albie Booth scored all Yale’s 21 points in the last half. Last week before a crowd of 50,000 Yale paraded no individual star but revealed a hard-charging, powerful line that mowed down the West Pointers, 15-to-7.

¶Upset of the week, in which Coach Ossie Solem’s young but smart Syracuse eleven bested one of the finest Cornell teams in years, was also distinguished by the most dazzling play of the week. In the third quarter, Syracuse’s dusky Wilmeth Sidat-Singh, reputedly the only Hindu footballer in the U. S., caught a pass from his teammate, Olympic Sprinter Marty Glickman, faded back and hurled the ball high over the Cornell tacklers, apparently into space but actually into the waiting hands of the same Marty Glickman, who a few plays later was able to make his second touchdown of the day. Syracuse 14, Cornell 6. ‘