The Washington times., 1931-11-23
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BY EDDIE CASEY
| Former All-American Halfbaok and Now
Head Football Coach at Harvard


Former An-American HaIfbaok and Now
Head Football Coach at Harvard
BOSTON, Nov. %. The gl2at
objective Saturday of the 1921
football season witnessed three vic
tories that partook of the nature
of upSets when considered from
the earlier season scores, but in
all cases the team which won has
had undoubted strength all year.
Southern California defeated
Notre Dame in a battle of Giants
out in South Bend, Yale won
from Harvard and Bucknell beat
F'ordham. In addition, the vic
tory by California over Stanford
may well be listed as somewhat
unexpected.
Southern California has one of
the greatest football squads of all
time for material and it is small
wonder that it won. but the tradi-
ton of victory hung so close to
Notre Dame that people had
begun to feel that it bore
charmed life. Notre Dame went
at it's work in accustomed man.
ner, with Southern California
hammering at score all the first
period but the Irish being the
first to tally.
Remembered 1880 Defeat
When they scored again in the
third period it looked like just an
other game for Notre Dame but
that defeat of a year ago still
smarted and Southern California
went to work to score 16 points
in the face Of the IA and the wiz.
ard, Rockne, was not on the bench
to cope with the surge.
Northwestern clinched its Big
Ten title by taking Iowa with lit
tie trouble; Nebraska won the Bix
Six Missouri Valley title with a
Tulane won as expected from
clean victory over Iowa State;
Sewanee and must be considered
the leader of the South, while
Southern Methodist went to the
East and cleanly defeated Navy
to show that it is the class of the
Southwest.
This leaves the field fairly we'll
covered and the promise of the
nomination Of real national
champion if the Tournament Of
Roses acts as expected by choos-
ing Tulane and Southern Califor-
MIA to meet in California on New
Years Day.
Yale Shows Strength
Old Hurry Up YoSt must have
been helping that Michigan team
to enable it to hold powerful Min
nesota and score one touchdown
to win second place in the confer
ence along with Ohio State.
Yale, which spilled an unde-
feated Harvard eleven, had un-
doubted strength all season and
was using the tried and true
Notre Dame offense, but it had
failed to click noticeably well,
due to a combination Of un-
familiarity with new assignments.
This was absent in the Harvard
game and Yale cashed in on
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team, slightly below earlier form,
failed to click on its one big
chance.
Bucknell had been undefeated,
while Fordham had just come
through a gruelling battle with
N. Y. U. and was worn and wan.
AS a result, Bucknell is happy
in the first undefeated season
in football history there.
Ingram's Success
Navy Bill Ingram was brought
to California as a coach, not to
work miracles, but to teach the
game Sanely and well. He built
slowly. losing his first couple Of
games, but he built we'll and he
worked miracles by breaking the
Stanford reign of six years in
this classic of the Pacific coast.
There was nothing flashy about
the victory; just pressure on the
Stanford kicker that made him
punt short and then a drive to
the one score Of the game.