The Washington times., 1929-10-28
GREEN
EASTERN :.
LEADER
BY Davis ]. Walsh

BY DdVlS y. walsh
The football capital OF
America might be found today.
among the stately spires that
rise above the campus just
outside South Bend.
1t might be the tiny hamlet they
call Hanover, n. H., nesting in q
setting that is almost priRitive. 1t
might be beautiful Los Angeles;
somber. half-toned Pittsburgh; his
toric knoXville; quaint, old New
Orleans; the eastern outpost on the
edge Of the desert, Salt Lake City;
or that sprightly charmer of the
northwest, Minneapolis.
1t might be any of these and it 4
might be none. For while Notre
Dame, Dartmouth. Southern Cali.
fornia, Pittsburgh, Tennessee, Tu.E
lane. Utah and Minnesota remained
undefeated in weekend games that
were all-consequential, so did Pur-
due, Texas. California and Detroit,
while Cornell drew a blank alto
gether and so preserved it's record
/ intact.
All we have TO go on today
| il that Dartmouth, having ruined
Harvard, must be conceded to
| be one of two leading teams
| i'm the East snd that the other
is Pittsburgh
| That Southern California; - TO
! 0 victory over Stanford gives it
\ most Of the authority on the coast;
THAT Texas locks the part as the
IL, tho thar
Tula neo's disposal of Georgia Tech
stakes ut to sn equal ranking with
Tennessee. in the South; that Pur-
due, with An1ther victory over Chi
Cago, is in sole charge of the big
ten at the moment and so on.
Included among the etcetera, so
to speak, is the fact that NOueA
Dame survived another of .its BigW
moments, this time beating CarnegieS
Tech by a touchdown; that Ne
braska and Missouri, having played
a to tie, must look TO the re-
mainder of their schedules for the Y
Big Six championship and that
Utah, winner over Colorac>1 Aggies,
still is the best bet in the rising,
young Rocky Mountain Conference.
With the exception of Nebraska,
beaten by Pitt, and naturally Mis-
souri,, these form the 100 per cent.
group in the football lists, although
California, in view OF its scoreless
tie with st. Mary's, actually be. .
longs with Fordham and DAVIS
Elkins. co-stars in Saturdays tie;
Boston College, w. and j., Illinois,
Ohio State, Missouri, Southern
Methodist and Villanova. Tie scores
have deprecated the championship
status of this coterie and, in some
cases. have disposed of them alto
gether.
1t was Ohio States scoreless tie
with Indiana on Saturday, for in
stance, that makes possible Pur-
dues position today. 1t was one
of the major upsets of the day, of
which there were three others. The
only one that really counted was
Army's remarkable defeat by Yale.
The others saw Princeton tie the
Navy and Florida beat Georgia, af.
ter losing to Tech the week before.
Carnegie Tech. Stanford,
Chicago, Harvard and the
Army were beaten for the first
time while the tie suffered by
Ohio State was almost as dis
aStrOuS.
1t meant that, instead Of fighting
Purdue and Minnesota for the Zig
Ten lead, it was embroiled with
Illinois for the right to remain the
runner up. The Buckeyes actually
were outplayed from the moment
that Faunce headed into the open
for As yards early in the game and
they deserved no better than they
got.
Notre Danes first victory in
three years over Tech was mads
possible by Karcis' weak punt in
the third period; yet Teach itself
probably will concede today thet
the better team won. So probably
will Stanford in the case of South
ern California. since the Trojans
held the Warner outfit for downs
inside the 5-yard line in the first
period and thereafter dominated
the game. California, winner over
the Olympic Club by 21-19 IL the
only coast team between U. S. c.
and the title now.
1t was a one-man defeat that
Yale gave the Army. which was
13 points to the good when Alhio
Booth came on the field and eight
points to the bad when he left.
Able scored them all. This 140.
pound whippet handled the ball,
one way or another, on every play,
and climaxed his performance with
7O-yard run for the winning
touchdown.
Marsters beat Harvard, although
1t must be admitted that quite
football team scored 90 points for
Dartmouth in the final period. In
all, Dartmouth has scored 75S
points this season agalnt the lone
touchdown that Harvard got on
Saturday. Southern California has
scored 216.