The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
FOOTBALL NEARING
END OF 40 TRAIL
Texas Aggies, Stanford, Ten
nessee And Boston Play
Finales Saturday
BY BILL BONI

nesota has completed Its scheoule
without defeat or tie. Michigan's
Tommy Harmon has played his
last game for the Wolverines and
set a new Western conference scor-
ing record. Harvard has handed
Yale a resounding humping. Cor
nell has been toppled by Penn, to
be replaced by the Red and Blue
at the head of the Ivy league.
All are signs that the 1910 col
lege football season is about ready
for the historians and the second
g~uessers. But if few teams still r
on the active list in this last big
week of competition, the games
they will play are none the less
decisive.
Texas A. and M, Stanford, Ten
nessee and Boston College, all IN
beaten and united so far, must get
by Texas, California, Vanderbilt
and Holy Cross to finish that way.
Nebraska must beat Kansas State
to insure outright possession of the
Big Six title. Some los, 900 specta-
tors still must fight their way into
Philadelphia's Municipal stadium
to e Army play Navy.
There could have been no more
fitting finales to the season than
those delivered yesterday by Har-
mon and Frank Reagan of Penn.
Michigan's wonder boy, climaxing
a career in which he wiped out
Red Oranges scoring record, ran
for three touchdowns, passed for
two more and booted four extra
points as the Wolverines hung a
horrible 400 sinner on Ohio State
and finished right back of Mime
Sofa in the Western conference
standings. The Gophers, No. l
team in the country, finished their
business in fine style by overcom-
ing a lib deficit to whip Wiscon-
sin, 22-13.
Reagan, meanwhile, was carry
ing Penn almost single-handed to
a 22-2O victory over Cornell which
saw the Red and Blue wipe out
$50 and 20-16 ornell leads. Cor.
nell helped beat itself by irving
TWO passes from its own end zone.
But Reagan, with the able assis-
lance OF Center Ray Frick, scored
tnree touchdoWns and punted hand
somely all afternoon, running the
Cornells ragged despite the verv
OBVIOUS fact that Penn had no pass
ing attack and the Ithacans there
ore could concentrate their do
tense on stopping the runners.
whiie Penn is Ivy league king
pl'' 1lrst honors in the East must
go to Boston College,, which ran
ana passed its way past Aub,,rn
~ silloo1nly and effectively that
tne hardy Plainsmen couldn't come
lose to a score until they were
oehlnd, $50, and then saved them.
ewes from a shutout only against
me BIC. third and fourth-stringers
IN addition to Cornell, Penn State
ana mississippi also were rudelv
landed. The Nittany Lions re-.
Putedly stout defense fell anar+ &C
pltt paraded to a 2O-7 score uhi,s
Gie Miss its Merle Hapes and it's
Sunle Hovlous bowed to once-tied
1ouo d%noeieated Mississippi State.
l9-o. Brilliant kickoff returns ~ <,
ano % yards set up two st.to
scores: while the Maroon line ba1d
ne MISS outside the 40 until the
last quarter. W ule
10 escape a Southeastern ron
ference tie with State. Tennossaa
,nust whip Vanderbilt. Off the in,-
press1ve style in which the voIs
oeas Kentucky, $50, they'll be fsm'
oreo' but the task wasn't m.da
LOOK any easier by vandvs aroat
sIaho against Alabama. The Gon
,r1ooores led until the last fo,,r
minutes, when Jimmy Nelson VII
already had pitched two scorino
passes and helped drive N varas
lor another tally, tossed ono u.s.
~ yards and the touchdown +ho+
Won, 1921. 'nat
one other major title was do
Iioeo as Clemson came from he-
n1au WIN a 53-yard forward-latera1
play that nipped Furman. 13-7 "a,
gave the Tigers first place in thu thu
ni"1 conference. Duke, peren-
maj front-runner, wound IN ont If
g. respite a 1875 conquest of N. =
ntate' while North Carolina. which
aao spilled Duke, beat ~non-confer-
ence Virginia, 1917,
BEARS pEAr r