Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-30
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TROJANS
dash GOLDEN BEARS 1927 HOPE

COLISEUM, LOS ANGELES, Oct.
90 QP)-Line smashing beat long punt
ing today, 13 to 0, when the Southern
California Trojans took all the wonder
out Of 1927's wonder team from Cali
fornia
Rated at better than even odds, the
Al footballers, who came down here
from Berkeley, discovered that boot
under the ball, no matter how good,
could not register on the score board
against a hammering attack.
Troy's much touted interference was
interfering at top speed and strength
today, and time after time it ripped
gaps in the Bear line, while the south
ern war horses defense was steady
and powerful enough to bar the in
vaders from crossing the Trojan line.
Lom, kaufman and j. Dougery were
the stars. for California, but especially
Lom, who carried the battle on his
shoulders, his passing hands and his
punting shoes.
Over the entire field, however, loom
ed Morley Drury, skipper Of the south
ern California crew, who packed the
bail 206 yards out of total OF 37l
yards gained for his team.
The two scores for Troy came in the
second and fourth periods. All it de-
veloped was that California outpunted
its southern rival by yards, while that
southern rival outsmashed the Bear
consistently.
The action that tailed made its
appearance in the middle of the sec
! ond period Drury started to crunch
his way the length of the field and
piled yards on yards until he put the
/ b.Il in the shadow of the Bears den.
Then, wearied in well doing, he gave
place to Don Williams, the Trojan
battering ram. Don did his batterlng
and ramming on schedule time and
ran over the touchdown. He tried
the converting kick himself and every
body thought he had made it, even
| the Official score board attendant, who
| hung up the score OF seven, but 1t was
+ not allowed, and Southern California
had to be content with a six to moth
ing lead
/ The third period like the first, made
no never minds" to the tally sheet,
but happenings started at the toot OF
the whistle in the fourth.
The ball lay in mid-field, one yard
over into the Bear garden. Williams
took the ball, everybody looked for the
battering ram to hit the line Instead,
he befuddled it by heaving beautiful
pass to McCaslin, and that lad, with
half a dozen Californians reaching for
the tail Of his Jersey, missed the
bounds line by inches and scared
4 across for the touchdown.
The days play, as a football demon
lstration. was work of art. Two
j furnbles only marked the entire four
periods, both charged to California.
One broke up the biggest threat of a
Bear rally, when Evans fingers turned
slippery in the third period, and Drury
] recovered for Southern California.
Penalties, too, were infrequent.
4 Southern California drew four of these
for a total of 40 yards, California three
for Is yards.
The early stages Of the argument
found both teams feeling out the OPP
Eponents. The Bear learned from his
investigation that he could not get
anywhere through the Trojan line,
while Southern California discovered
/ that while it could not put in the same
class with the enemy, that it could
! gouge holes in his ranks big enough
to drive elephants through. So Cali
fornia punted and the Trojan battered,
with the known result.
i Seventy-nine yards was the first
fateful march of the Tropan horde, but
the invasion petered out for lack OF
downs about the California 15-yard
s mark.
For while here the Bears thought
they had Drury stopped. They had,
for WHILE but the Trojan skipper
drew a long breath and toted the ball
3 along in five-yard installments to the
danger point, where Coach Jones sent
in Williams for the first touchdown
Edelson alternating with the husky
* Southern California plunger.
81 Gaining three yards to one via the
line, but losing on the punt exchanges,
Southern California added fresh con-
fidence through the third period, and
were in shape to open the fourth
stanza with Don Williams deceptive
pass for the second and last touch
down.
The Bear, who entered the game q
ten to elghC IaVOr1Ce, was DeaUen allo
repeated folorn hope passes by LON
could not pull him out of the hole
Cold figures show the following:
California gained 40 yards from
scrimmage as against Southern Cali
. fornia's 371; Trop had II first, downs
seven more than the Bear; Califor-
MAS famed aerial attack registered
five times out Of IA attempts for a