Imperial Valley press., 1926-11-22
So. California
Sporting Briefs

! Wandering Nandals from Idahe
University, reputed one of the best
defensive teams IN the Pacific con
ference and primed to stop Norton
| kaer, were unable to stop Howard
Elliott, kacr S unGerstudy, or to
cope with the Trojan overhead at
tack and Southern California walk
ed in with a 2S6 victory Saturday.
Elliott, substituting for Kacr, ran
the Nandal ends and tackles almost
at will. He scored three touchdowns
and converted four points after
touchdown.
Dividing spotlight honors with FL
lott were Red Badgro, ono of the
coast S premier cnds, and Captain
Jeff CraTath. Badgro shared pass
after pass for long gains, usually
taking them with his fingcrtipS.
He scored the last Trojan touch
down with a - yard run after tax
ing a - yard pass from Elliott.
travath, in addition to playing
his usual good game at center, con
tributcd piece of quick thinking
that led directly to the Trojan 8
third srorc. Powers of Idaho got
off u mediocre kick from his own
goal line, the bail being downcd by
Bcalc, Nandal end. After touching
tie ball down Bcalc left il unguard-
ed and Cravath noticing that the
referee s whistle declaring the ball
dead had not blown, picked up the
pigSkn an scampcrcd from the 81
to ;hc Idaho : yard line. a few
plays later Elliott swept around
right end for a touchdown.
Owings contributed the most sen
Satonal play Of the game when he
grabbed an almost impossible pass
from Jacoby and raced 30 yards to
Idaho 5 only touchdown. His at
temp to convert was blocked.
The aggregation from Moscow
had only Two other opportunities to
score. The. first was lost when Per
rims, out in the open and only eight
Yards from touchdown, dropped a
pass. The other was cut short By
the gun ending the game. The bail
was in Idaho S possession on the
Troian's S one yard line when time
ended.
Coach Jones used second string
men as much as possible not wishing
to risk injury to regulars with the
Montana and Notrc Dame games
looming near.
Southern Branch failed 10 heed
opportunity knock and Pomona
swept into IA Southern California
conference championship despite Il
terrific troGncing at the hands of
the Occidental 1lgcrs, Saturday.
Pomona after playing Occidental
to standstiil in the opening pc
riod seemed to lose heart when Mer-
ritt, star halfback, was carried OF
the field with broken collar bone
jmd the Tigers clawed the Sagchcns
! for three touchdowns and a field
goal.
Merritt ) injury came when he
was tackled after a - yard gain
Pomona took the conference title
because they won more games than
any of the other contcndcrs. Occi-
dental, Whittier and Southern
Branch each dropped two contests
rs did Pomona bur Pomona manag-
Cl to ckc ont five wins while the
others were registering four.
Fox Stanton 5 Caltcch team stop
ped the fast moving Southern
bcanch aggregation and using Il new
shift pushed over a touchdown be
| fore the Bruin defense discovered
! the combination. Captain Stanton
| the coach ; son, took the ball over
after the brilliant work of Muft
placed it in scoring position. Muft
! kicked goal.
Southern Branch 5 only score
came in the second quarter when
! Fleming placed "A 35 ward drop kick
squaclv between the horizoutals
The Bruins with Fleming bearing
the brmt took the ball to the one
yard line in the same quarter but
lacked the punch to put it over.
In the other conference gamo
! Whittier with PCndlctOn and Den
ny doing the heavy work, crashed
Rcdlands under 800 score,
Charley Dean, cX-Southcrn Cali
fornia star, entering the game il
! the fourth quarter, took the bal
! 30 wards to IA touchdown on nlnt
straight plays and gave. the Holly
wood Generals 9 to : victory ovcl
san Francisco yesterday. the scqr,
! was tied when Dean entered The
game.
Hollywood took the lead carly il
tine first quarter when Rabbit Nal
lcttc Kicked 81 field goal
Ia the second quarter san Fran
cisco tied thu count when Guide
back, former Stanford star, plac,
! kicked from Il difficult angle on
+ the 1t yard line.
Hawkins, Mallettc and Dean star
rcd for the Film city entry, Will,
Cuddcbark and Scotchy Campbell
J stood out for san Francisco,