The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-11-19
Sport: Slants

You have heard of the coach's
dream of an All-America team in &C.
ton with everything clicking in a
perfect exhibition Of football. Well,
boys, it came true twice on the same
day.
On opposite sides of the continent
the afternoon of Saturday. November
8. Howard Jones of Southern Califor-
MIA and Knute Kenneth Rockne OF
Notre Dame must have felt like rub
bling their eyes, pinching themselves
to make sure 1t was not just a dream,
after all, instead Of the real thing
that was unfolded before them by
their gridiron pupils.
It is doubtful If modern major
league football anywhere has wit
messed as faultless exhibitions Of Of
fensive football as Notre Dame man
ifested IN slaughtering Pennsylvania,
1920. or Southern California dis
played in overwhelming California
TAO.
What a battle it will be if the
Fighting Irish and the Trojans can
reproduce such football when they
meet in the Los Angeles Coliseum
December s.. What a battle, anyway.
In some fifteen years of peering
intently at various gridiron proceed
ings east, west and south, I have
never seen such perfect co-ordina-
ton, such superlative blocking, such
sustained offensive drive as Notre
noy ma MT m ovhihi<iro fo, Tia A.~a
tit of 10000 at Franklin Field.
Dartmouth's passing attack in 1925
was devastating. Illinois with Grange
packed a sensational scoring punch.
The -Four Horsemen" were a great
offensive combination, but this 1890
Notre Dame scoring factory produces
touchdowns like Ford turns out motor
cars.
The Irish averaged a point-a-min-
ute against Pennsylvania but 54 Of
their 60 points were scored in only
20 minutes Of actual playing time.
Every time Notre Dame had the
ball and catapulted the carrier
through an opening, it was a poten-
tial touchdown.
The Rockne regulars, after warm
ing up. had nine chances to carry the
ball over for a touchdown. They
| capitalized eight of these chances in
! marches of from Is to n yards. ad-
vancing the pigskin by straight rush
ing a total of 534 yards in an aggre-
gate of % plays. The result was
nearly always the same, whether
Savoldi, Brill, O'Connor, Schwartz or
Mullins toted the ball. 1t was either
a first down or a touchdown.
Appropriately enough, all this &C
tivity waS directed by the All-Amer-
lean quarterback, Frank Carideo of Mt.
Vernon, New York.
Old Penn has not had such grid
iron humiliation heaped upon her in
over 40 years. Back in the sos. be-
fore the advent of the Woodruff
"steam-roller system" at Philadelphia
the Quakers were easy victims of the
Old Big Three-Yale, Harvard and
Princeton.
In the canvas-jacketed days of 1887
Princeton walloped Penn three times
in one season to the tune of $50
Clio, 48-0. The Tigers repeated the
triple dose the next year and to make
it unanimous Harvard and Yale each
plastered the Quakers by 500.
However, that was before Woodruff
Hare. Brooke. Osgood and other stall
warts made the Red and Blue &
mighty gridiron factor. In modern
times, the worst Penn defeats were
the 34-3 lacing by Michigan in 1914
the 41-O beating by Georgia Tech il
1917, and the 41-0 slaughter by Kav
and Cornell in 1921. the 1872 revers,
at the hands OF Grange and Illinoi
in 1925.