The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-10-02
Strange Things Happen
Even in Football

SAAn6o yOu ohVuAS~
about this game called football.
with grateful acknowledgment to
a gentleman who lives in the Juri-
alta Branch Of Altoona, Pa, and re-
quests that his name shall not be
uSed.)
George Washington u, Washing
ton, D. c., plays teams from seven
different states but makes no trips.
st. Mary's college, California, has
student enrolment of 476-and a
stadium seating $4,000; Oglethorpe
"U," Atlanta, Ca, has an enroll
ment of 500-and a stadium seat
ing $4,000.
In 1872 a football game between
Columbia and Rutgers was called on
account of darkness.
In 1921 Cornell defeated Dart
mouth, SO to latter leading by
but single touchdown at .he half.
Walter Camp once placed a Ne
braska player on his All-American
team who had graduated the year
before.
In 1916 Bill Fincher of the Georgia
Tech team booted eighteen consecu-
tive goals after touchdowns in a
game that ended 222 to against
Cumberland.
Pat O'Dea dlop-kicked 81 yards
for Wisconsin in 1895 against North
western-in snowstorm.
Homer Hazel of the 1923 Rutgers
team kicked off to Villanova to
open the game. A few seconds lat
er he recovered fumble-scoring
on his own kickoff.
Walter Camp played on the Yale
team six years; Foster Sanford
played on the same team two years
before even entering the institution.
The game of football was almost
banished in 1897 in Georgia due to
the fatal injury to Vonalbade Gam
mon of the Georgia squad.
Bradsbury Robinson made an 81
yard pass in st. Louis-Kansas
game in 1906. In 1920 "Brick" Null
Ter of Ohio State snapped the ball
for mere 70 yards.
Thad Brock of Davidson colleges
IN. c. 1929 team made run of
1O2 yards yet failed to score
against Duke. He had attempted to
kick from eight yards behind his
goal line, changed his mind, ran,
and was downed on Dukes six-yard
stripe.
Woodrow Wilson was the first
Princeton football coach to defeat
both Harvard and Yale; he origi-
mated the double pass and was re-
sponsible for the modern eligibility
rules.
The outstanding David Goliath
football game is still Centres con-
quest of Harvard in 1921. That was
back when Junk" Moran coached
Centre. His last coaching assign
ment was at Catawba college, Sal
isbury, N. c., two years ago.
Centre college was one of the first
Southern teams to defeat q North
ern team ON Northern soil.
Earle Clark of the Colorado col
lege team scored all the points for
both sides in 1929, the score stand
ing to 2 at the finish for 6 Colorado
victory over Denver.
A University of North Carolina
player, Ike Norwood, in 1908 played
in the first game he had ever seen
and then played in every game dur.
ing the season except one.
Picked Up Here and There-Ru-
mormongers whisper the only rea-
son Gene Venzke does not turn pro
is that nobody mentions the sort of
money Jesse Owens expects to
make. Also that if open track
meets become any sort of success
Gene Immediately will hop on the
band wagon but that, meanwhile,
he doesn't dare chirp about such
things for fear of getting in wrong
with the badge-wearing poo-bahs.
Gene, by the way, now carries a
cane. 1t is a. broken and discarded
javelin he picked up on the Berlin