Evening star., 1932-08-09
SHAVER SEES TO It
WEST WINS ON GRID
Trojan Back Supplies Punch
in a 65- Yard Drive That
Beats East rs.
BY ALAN GOULD.
Associated Press Sports Editor.

fHNSSSAohNN
Y OS ANGELES, August 9-"Gus"
Shaver of Southern California
personally attended to snatching
victory for the Western big
three" eleven from an Eastern team last
evening in a demonstration game of
American college foot ball, played un-
der the t1oodlights of the Olympic Sta
dium with many of the $4,000 spec
tators seeing their first contest.
The final score was to in favor Of
the combined forces of U. S. c., Cali
fornia and Stanford, against the ag
gregation representing Yale, Harvard
and Princeton, but the Far Western
players gave more superior exhibition
OF offensive foot ball than the margin
indicated. All the scoring was confined
to the last period and the Vests win
ming squirt came with only three min
utes left to play and the East fighting
desperately to hold its touchdown lead.
THE East, after staving off three
l. Western drives to its five-yard line
in the first three periods, broke the
scoreless deadlock by gaining a touch
down early in the final quarter through
the alertnesS of Yale boy named Bur-
ton Strange. A dazzling 38-yard broken
field run by Harvard's Eddie Mays just
before the third quarter ended put the
East in scoring position for the first
time. Big Ed Rotan of Yale tried a
placement kick, with the ball on the
Waste O7-vord I1t1t rtf fa1I
blocked and bounded off at tangent.
still on the playing field.
A S the startled Westerners fumbled
"A for the ball around their own
flve-yard stripe, Strange came
bounding through to pick it up and
raced across the goal line. Mays at
tempted drop-kick for the extra point
was blocked
From their own 35-yard line, after
Rotan's kickoff. the Westerners lugged
the ball straight down the field IS
yards in Is plays, with Shaver doing
most of the work and finally diving
over his right tackle for the touchdown
on fourth down. Shaver's longest gain
in this sequence of plays was 20 yards,
but he proved himself easily the Slip
periest ball carrier on the field The
decisive point that clinched the Vests
victory was place-kicked by Ed Kirwan
OF California, right halfback.
Is Real Entertainment.
The cheering. in a variety of Ian
guages, the brilliance of the show" put
on by the 'l,000-piece Olympic Band
and the Olympic chorus Of ] 500 voices,
all contributed to one of the most un-
usual Spectacles in American foot ball
hictn
of the gridiron.
For the benefit of the INITIATED the
players put on plenty of variety. There
was some stonewall defensive work by
the East to check Shavers early rushes.
The East introduced line shift and an
aerial display featured by a 35-yard
pass, Taylor of Yale to Orchard of
Harvard. Mays gave an artistic exhi-
bition Of punting with the white foot
ball
But the West put on most of the Of
fensive power Shaver and company
Tailed Is first downs and gained 265
yards from sclimmage. The East COM
pleted four out of II passes for 66 yards,
the West one out of six for II yards.
Some Stars Of Game.
Barres, Rotan and Betner of Yale,
the aid of White and Schereschewsky,
Harvard backs, did the East's star de-
fensive work. Shaver was aided by
Watkins and Kirwan of California in
carrying the bulk of the Vests attack,
with Hall and Williamson of Southern
California, as well as Ehrhorn of Stan
ford, doing good work up forward.
The new intercollegiate rules were
tried out in open competition for the
first time, as a preyiew tor the experts,
but there was only one instance where
they influenced the play. That was in
the third period when George Watkins
of California, quarterback, slipped after
getting through the line Watkins for
got himself and bounded up for more,
but the ball was dead" at the spot
where he hit the ground under the new
regulation, designed to prevent injurious
pile-ups on player attempting to make
progress after being knocked of his
feet.