The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-20

standing team, but the Huskiea failed to find full strength until tl1g end of the season when they were invincible. U. c. L. A., co-cham- pion in 1899, won only one of 10 games comprising the nations strongest schedule. Santa Clara lost only one game and was the strongest of the independents. Utah again won the Rocky Mountain con- ference title after Denver and Colo rado lost their chances to deadlock for the pennant by playing to a tic in the final week.
 Fourteen teams throughout the nation were undefeated and untied-- Boston College, Minnesota, Tennes- see, Lafayette, Hardin Simmons. Stanford, Pacific Lutheran, Eastern Kentucky Teachers, Milligan of Tenn. La Crosse, Wis, Teachers, Springfield, Mo, Teachers, Millers- vile, Pa, Teachers, Shurtleff of ILL, and Wittenberg of Ohio. Tennessee had the best record with SIS points against 26 while Boston College had 320-52 and Georgetown 273-41. The poorest records were turned in by U. c. l.. A. with 81-174, Yale with 43-162, Army with 54-197 and N. Y. U. with 71-185.
 Attendance mounted throughout the nation. Penn led with a home game total of more than 100000. The biggest crowd of the year-1O2 ,311- watched the Army-Navy contest at Philadelphia. Other large attend- anceS, all around 80000, saw Penn- Cornell, Michigan Minnesota. Notre- Dame U. S. C., Stanford California, Army-Notre Dame, and Michigan, Ohio State.
 Backs Outstanding
 The season abounded in outstand- ing backs and bizarre occurrences. Harmon was the most publicized player but he had competition in Klmbrough of Texas A. & M, Stan dle and Albert of Stanford, Franck of Minnesota, Matusczak and Mo- Cullough of Cornell, Butler and Warren of Tennessee, Eshmont of Fordham, O'Rourke of Boston Col lege, Reagan of Penn, Busik of Navy, Piepul and Juzwik of Notre Dame, Christman of Missouri and Mo- Adams of Washington. Peculiarly. Bill Decorrevont of Northwestern received no recognition.
 The weird happenings were head ed by Red Friesells gift of five downs to Cornell in a touchdown drive that brought "a triumph over Dartmouth. Cornell relin- quished both touchdown and victory the following Monday. Francis Schmidt of Ohio State accused Carl SnaVely of Cornell of coaching from the sidelines. Schmidt himself il- legally substituted Charley Maag against Purdue and Maag kicked the winning field goal. A nine-yard er- TOT in direction by another official ! helped Notre Dame defeat Navy, 13- '. The crowd at the Army Navy contest swarmed on the field before the game was over and the last play never was run.
 Unusually slim victories and many fourth-period rallies marked compe- tition generally. The most thrilling major games were Boston Colleges 1918 defeat of Georgetown, Penn's 22-20 conquest of Cornell, and Man. nattan's eerie 45-41 humbling of Marquette. Minnesota won from both Michigan and Northwestern by single point, while not more than three points won such games as Cal- ifornia- Washington, Fordhan : St. Mary's. Dartmouth Cornell, Nebras- ka-Pitt, Duke-Pitt, Stanford Santa Clara, and Georgia Georgia Tech. Only Tennessee had it easy.
 The most pertinent trends in technique were increased speed, a tendency to abandon the lateral pass and ShaughnesS's success with hip- per-dipper antics from the ancient T formation at Stanford. Systems as such generally broke down and the Warner and Notre Dame styles were generously modified by coach es everywhere. The attacks were more varied and there were a num- 1 Der of teams which leaned more to- ward passing than before. Probab- ly the two most diversified attacks were displayed by Boston College and Georgetown. These two offered power, speed, deception and hocus- | pOcllS.