Evening star., 1933-10-29
RAMS POINTS COME
IN OPENING PERIOD
Punt Blocked After Dixians
RepuIse Two Drives in
Bruising Battle.
BY FOSTER HALEY,
By FOSlEh HAILEI,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
YEW YORK, October 28.-A


"A YEW YORK, October 28.-A
M sturdy Alabama line which
| Y twice rose in all it's might
to throw back an enemy
attack in the shadow of its
own goal posts weakened for just
one play in the first period of an
intersectional foot ball battle with
Fordham at the Polo Grounds to-
day, led a charging Ram lineman
through to block a kick and by
the narrow margin of points
went down to honorable defeat.
1t was one of the few inter-Sectional
arguments the mighty Crimson Tide of
the South had lost in the last few years
and that includes three appearances
in the Rose Bowl games-the last de-
feat being at the hands of Wisconsin
in 1929.
1t was bruising battle of two great
lines which fought each other up and
down the SCARED turf under CooganS
Bluff for 60 bitter minutes OF fine foot
ball, with whatever advantage there
was going to the men of Fordham who
punched out five first downs to three
for the invaders and stopped the Grim
son attack whenever it threatened the
Ram goal line.
T->ORDHAM had threatened all
n through the first period until the
score, Alabama once stopping them
on the 1-yard line, inches short of
first down. The Ram was soon back
knocking at the door, but the Alabama
fans breathed a sigh of relief as Quar-
terback Frank Moseley intercepted
pass from Capt. Ed Dancwski of Ford
ham en- his own 2-yard line. Dixie"
Howell, a great punter all afternoon,
dropped back behind his own goal line
to kick the ball out of the danger zone.
The pass came back to him perfectly,
but the big, Maroon clad line went
Swarming through and as Howells toe
met the ball Amerino Sarno, big Ford
ham tackle, leaped high in the air to
knock it down. Howell won the race
to the ball and doWned it for a safety
behind the end zone and points for
Fordham. That, it proved, was all they
needed
Alabama came raging back from that
eart-breaking play to keep the ball in
Fordham territory through most of the
second and third periods, but they could
not muster scoring punch and the
end CT the game saw them in another
desperate stand on their own 6-yaTd
line with Fordham holding the ball,
fourth down and goal to 60.
4 N INJURY to Erskine early in the
n game undoubtedly slowed down
the Alabama attack, but it ap-
peared doubtful that even Erskine could
have punctured the great defense Ford
ham showed all afternoon.
Neither team showed any forward
passing attack, Alabama trying eight
with only one completed while Ford
ham made two good in five attempts.
Twice g. bounding punt was mad
vertently touched by an Alabama back
and recovered by Fordham deep in the
Tides territory, but the Crimson re-
covered three Fordham fumbles two of
them far down the field for their only
real scoring threats, and the day was
even so far as breaks" were concerned.
but clean, only one incident causing
any flare up of temperS. Ralph Candy,
Bama end, appeared to think Ford
ham player jumped on Howell unneces-
sarily after the latter had downed the
safety and went to his teammates aid
with his fists flying. Other players in
terfered, however, and Candy was taken
out of the game by Coach Frank
Thomas to cool off.
A capacity crowd of approximately
10000 persons, most of them Alabama
partiSans If the cheers were any indica-
ton, saw the game under perfect
weather conditions.