Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1936, Page 28

B—6 SPORTS SECTION he Sunday Star WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1936. Rice Trims G. W. : Florida Nips Maryland} Wildcats Upset Gophers + + + a s Slugging Penalty Paves Way | to Northwestern’s Score, Ending Great Streak. BY ALAN GOULD, VANSTON, Ill, October 31.— The supposedly impregnable citadel of Minnesota's foot ball power fell today before the cats, carrying with it the demolish- | ment of the game’s most celebrated | winning streak and the 1936 cham- | pionship dreams of the galloping Go- Taking advantage of a sequence of sxtraordinary “breaks,” Northwestern pushed over a last period touchdown to beat Minnesota, 6 to 0, in a battle that rain before a shricking crowd of 47,000 spectators in Dyche Stadium. ‘Widseth Slugs, Gophers Lose. A PENALTY for slugging by Big Ed tain of the Minnesotans, followed the recovery of a Gopher fumble on the visitors’ 13-yard line and paved the way for Steve Toth, Northwestern across for the winning score on the second play of the final quarter. “‘Widseth, in the pile-up of a line play, hit an opposing player twice in Referee John Getchell of St. Thomas after the game. The offense called for a 15-yard penalty but since the Wildcats had line, the actual penalty amounted to 12 yards and left the home team with four chances to put the ball across from the 1-yard stripe. \/JINNESOTA twice thrust back linz plunges, with Don Geyer and fToth carrying the ball, before and mfter the teams changed sides of the the third play of the series and sec- ‘ond play of the last quarter, plunged across his own right tackle for the touchdown. extra point was blocked by Antil, Gopher end, but the mud-caked Wild- cats took the six points that the *breaks” had aided them in collecting nesota’s most furious counter charges throughout the last period. ‘The Gophers went down with col- ors flying, throwing all their vaunted furious efforts to turn the tide, but they were stopped by a combination f the mud, the rain, their own loose andling of the slippery ball and the MINNESOTA, 6T00 ’ Associated Press Sports Editor. turious charge of Northwestern’s Wild- | phers. was savagely fought in the mud and Widseth, star tackle and co-cap- fullback from Toledo, Ohio, to plough the face, after the whistle blew,” said the ball only 13 yards from the goal Third Play Gets Score. field for the final quarter. Toth, on Toth’s attempt to place-kick the and then proceeded to fight off Min- manpower into the game in their sensational defense of the Wildcats. Northwestern Leads Race. THE defeat brought a dramatic fin- '™ ish to the Minnesota winning streak. which had extended through 21 successive games, perched the Gophers on top of the foot ball world, and made the system taught by Bernie Bierman the standard by which gridiron production was Measured. The mighty men of Minnesota, under Bierman’s shrewd tutoring, had gone through 28 consecutive matches ‘without defeat. Just a week ago, in taking their fourth straight game of the current campaign from Purdue by a 33-to-0 margin, they were hailed as another invincible machine, headed for national championship heights. Minnesota’s first setback since the Gophers lost to Michigan in the final game of the 1932 season not only Tocked the entire American foot ball world, but gave Northwestern com- mand of the Big Ten championship race. The Wildcats also entered the game unbeaten and their triumph ztirred a rain-soaked crowd of parti- san rooters to wild heights of cele- bration. Line-ups and Summary, Northwestern Kov (6). tch + + + B —— Long-Sought Win Honors Hurt Pal By the Associated Press. NEPONSET, Iil, October 31.— It had been three 'on( years since Neponset High School won a foot ball game, until yesterday, when they did it for an injured team- mate. Neponset beat Sheffield, 19 to 6, after the squad vowed to “bring home the bacon” for Hayden Turn- bull, 17, lying paralyzed from the shoulders down in a Kewanee, Il hospital. Turnbull suffered fracture of several vertebrae in the Neponset- Tiskilwa game a week ago. RED RAIDERS WIN WITHTRICKS, 147 Come Back in Second Half to Hand Soldiers First Defeat of Season. BY PAUL MICKELSON, Associated Press Sports Writer. EST POINT, N. Y., October 3l.—Andy Kerr's Red Ralders from Colgate, 1e- garded as pretty much of a set-up after their lickings from Duke and Tulane, dazzled the Army with a typical “shell game” in tne last half today to topple the Cadeis into a 14-to-7 defeat. Soundly beaten in the first half, which saw them troop to the,dress- ing room with the scoreboard read- ing 7 to 0 against them, the slickers from the banks of the Chenango cooked up & new hocus-pocus that brought them from hopeless defeat to victory over the heretofore un- beaten, untied Army mule. The rc- sult was one of the most starling up- sets of a season already littered with amazing comebacks and defeats. Unless it was the old master, Kerr, himself, not one of the 20,000 spec- tators who jammed the small Michie Stadium on a perfect sunshiny day gave the Red Raiders a ghost of a show. With Monk Meyer sliding through them for long gains and pass- | ing them dizzy, the slickers from Hamilton resembled a bewildered high | school team against a great one. Colgate Amazes Army, Crowd. Bv‘r back they came. As the crowd stood and gasped, they rushed over the tying touchdown shortly after the third period opened and came back with another before the fourth was very old, with Whitney Jaeger, Ed Lalor, Don Wemple and Johnny Long bamboozling the tough old Army mule with their hocus-pocus. With Meyer snaking his way over the greensward, the Cadets took cnly 10 minutes and seven plays to streak into the lead. Making the Colgate defense look pitiful, the Cadets started on their 37 and reached the Raiders’ 19 as Meyer tossed accurate aerials into the arms of Frank Kobes and Johnny Ryan when he didn't cross up the enemy with a dash himself. On the 19 Meyer faded back and threw a high floating pass to Ryan, who nabbed it on the goal line and walked over for the touchdown. Ryan added the extra point. For the rest of the half Army made one threatening sally after another, while the Colgate offense was so im- potent that it reached no farther than its own 44. ‘What Andy Kerr told his Red Raid- ers between halves isn't known, but they came back as if they had been fed a mixed menu of dynamite and Halloween ale. Eight minutes after their return to the field they had knotted the count. Passes Bring Upset. JAEG!R took Meyer’s punt, raced 5 yards and lateraled to Frank Marshall, who ran 10 more to his 43. Pulling the drawstring from their trick bag with double and triple later- als and forwards, the Red Raiders swept to the 1-foot line, where Lalor dived over center for the touchdown. a | As the breathless crowd watched, Score by periods: Northwestern Minnesot; ‘Touchdown—Toth. Substitutions—Minnesota: End. ; tackie, R. Johnson: guards, Schulz. Bell; halfbacks. Matheny. Gmitro, Thompson: fullback. Buhler. ‘Northwestern: nds, Deihl, Bender: {ackles. Burnette, Voigts, Malloy: guards. Calvano. Devry: center, : halfbacks, Jefferson, Adelman; eyer. cials—Referee. John _Getchell (St. : umplre. ‘H." G. Hedges (Da ugge, George Simpson (W consin): head linésman, H. W. Huesel (Marquette). Statisties, [ i) - oo G DD OHDWOWS s lost lost by pen *Includes punts 8. | NEBRASKA NEAR GOAL Missouri 20-0 Victim as Nebraska, Bids for Big Six Battle. Marcel Chesbro tied the score with a perfect placement. Army drove back, but Jim Craig, in for the sensational Meyer, fumbled, and Jaeger recovered for Colgate on his 20. Another exchange of sallies found the Raiders off again with their hocus-pocus. Starting on their 43 on the break of a -kicking duel, Long |R: threw a pass to Temple that was good | B- for 42 yeards, placing it on Army's 15. Another pass, Long to Wemple, put it on the Cadet 5, and Jaeger, on the end of a perfectly executed double reverse, slipped around his left end for another touchdown. Chesbro again added the extra point. As Meyer re-entered the game, the Cadets opened a desperate passing at- tack, but twice it was broken up with interceptions by Tommy Eck and Jaeger. As the game ended the Raid- ers were firing away on the Army’s 35. Line-ups and Summary. . 11 cive Pos. R.] A o COLONIALS FOLED BYVICKER, NEECE Pair Blazes Way to Owls’ 12-6 Win, but Kaufman Is Star of Fray. BY ROD THOMAS. Staft Correspondent of The Star, OUSTON, Tex., October 31— Your George Washington Colonials, striving mightily for an unbeaten ‘season, were forced to strike their colors today to Rice Institute in a 12-6 foot ball battle that Texas scriveners said was one of the hottest fought in the Southwest this Fall. It produced thrill upon thrill for 10,000 spectators, most of whom cam® | to the Rice Stadium expecting to see | & lop-sided Owl victory. Johnny Neece and Red Vickers, hard-running backs, supplied the dy- namite that blasted the Buff and Blue from the ranks of the undefeated, but, effective as they were, neither out- matched George Washington's own Joey Kaufman., ‘With an all-around display of bril- liance, Kaufman marked the way as the Colonials marched 80 yards to a touchdown, in the third peried. Rice Strikes in Second. RICE struck suddenly in the second period, just at a time when it ap- peared the Colonials and Owls were settling down to an afternoon of swapping punts. Rice had the ball on its own 47-yard | line when Vickers sprang to life. He fired a 35-yard pass to Williams, an end, and the Owls were on the way. With Vickers and Neece knocking off the yardage in goodly hunks, Rice moved to George Washington's 12- yard .line, where Vickers heaved to Neece for a touchdown, the receiver catching the ball in full flight as he reached the goal. With three lightning thrusts the Owls scored the clinching points at the outset of the third quarter. Lau- rence, an end, ran back the kick-off 30 yards to put the ball on the 50-yard line. Allen Holt, a newly risen star at George Washington, nailed Neece for a 7-yard loss, but on the succeed- ing play Vickers cut loose with that unerring right arm and Neece dragged down the leather for a 29-yard gain. Vickers’ Long Run Tells, 'HE crowd hadn’t stopped cheering when Vickers gave 'em plenty more to shout over. Faking a pass and spreading the Colonial defense the red-head shot around his own right end and ducking tacklers with nearly every stride, negotiated 30 yards to a touchdown. A singular play started George ‘Washington to its score and Vickers had something to do with this, too. With a touchdown under his arm, he fumbled in the Colonials’ end zone and Kaufman recovered for an auto- matic touchback, the ball being brought out to the 20-yard line. Here Joey began to throw the leather with telling eflect. One of his passes was taken by Ray Hanken, end and acting captain, for a 23-yard gain which put the Colonials on Rice's 27- yard stripe. Joey followed with a 17-yard gallop around left end to lay the ball on Rice’s 10. A couple of Kaufman tosses were grounded, but finally got over a perfect shot to Pete Yurwitz, standing in the end zone. It was with the same sort of stuff that Joey and Pete used to win games for a New York high school. Kaufman Leading Gainer. JKAUFMAN was the leading ground gainer today in a struggle in which the yards were fought for as though the athletes’ hides depended upon them. Joey lugged the leather 13 timas for a total gain of 71 yards. Vickers produced 62 and Neece 25. Besides all of that, Kaufman shared in the punting and with exceptional effect. George Washington, which created & sensation by outgaining Rice last year and losing by 41 to 0, didn’t quite hold its own with the Owls this after- noon from the scrimmage line, run- ning up 176 yards to Rice's 228. The Buff and Blue tallied 14 first downs to the enemy’s 19. Toward the end, the Colonials and Owls went to it with suth vigor that numerous and long penalties were meted to both sides. Colgate Repulses Army : P k.l'nnk Patrick, GRIDIRON GOBLINS. - + o+ 4 itt, Fordham Draw : Penn Scutt AN IRRESISTIBLE FORCE MEETS AN IMMOVABLE OBJEC ONLY GOAL THREAT MADE BY PANTHER Rams Halt Drive on 4-Yard Line—Game Great Battle of Forward Walls. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Bports Writer. EW YORK, October 31.—Pitts- burgh’s mighty juggernaut N huffed and puffed all over the Polo Grounds today, but it couldn’t oust the Fordham Rams from the list of the Nation's unde- feated foot ball teams. The best the conquerors of Notre Dame could get was an 0-0 draw. It was the second consecutive year in which the two teams have battled to a scoreless deadlock. A capacity crowd-of 57,000—a com- plete sellout—cheered itself hoarse as two powerful, hard-hitting lines stood head to head and battled it out for 60 minutes of savage, bruising foot ball. . Fordham's achievement in stopping Pitt, recognized as one of the coun- try’s outstanding elevens, sent Rose Bowl hopes soaring in the Bronx tonight. Purdue is next and if the Rams can keep their record clean against the Boilermakers, they are conceded to have an excellent chance of finishing the season undefeated. Pitt Halted at 4-Yard Line. only real scoring threat of the afternoon was furnished by the Panthers., Late in the third quarter they launched a 46-yard march that carried from midfield to the Fordham 4-yard marker. With Bob Larue, who was the best back the Panthers showed today, and the highly touted Marshall Goldberg, hero of the Notre Dame game, carry- ing the ball, ’-Wd at times by the Pittsburghers charged and passed their way to within the very shadow of the Ram goal. ~ But as the hundreds of Pitt sup- 1olt | porters in the big crowd yelled for-s n Substitutions: _ Geors Sampson, on. Kavalier, Hogg, Stapl . Tihila, ing, Clngl‘ll'. urence. tussell, Vickers, Norris, akley, M iner, ‘rmn?uunr ice. p g feree—Mr. Sweeney (Beth- npire e Wateon - (Tenas), "B A.rl' (Kentucky Mines). Piel Tt (Texas). Two Teams Beat Gophers’ Streak b touchdown, the Fordham line stiffened, twice stopped Larue in his tracks and Pitt's one good opprwnlty went Those who came to see young Mr. k. Goldberg run wild were disappointed. Except for a 27-yard galiop to Ford- cock, ham’s 20 in the second, the speedy West Virginian was almost completely T THE INDIAN DID T AGAIN, Wildecats Wild, [ ToLD ME THAT \ ot Boy wuzZ A SET-UP? GEORGE WASHINGTON GAVE THE OWL MUCK A BATTLE THAN WAS EXPECTED Whoop It Up Dressing Room Din Following Victory Over Gophers Greatest Ever Say Old-Timers. By the Associated Press. VANSTON, Ili, October 31.— Hysteria hit the North- western dressing rooms in & wave of shouting, whoop- ing, near-delirious players and coaches late this rainy, dark after- noon. Seconds after the Northwestern Wildcats had stopped Minnesota’s great winning streak with a stun- ning 6 to 0 upset victory, the win- ning team almost wrecked their quarters in & demonstration which old-timers said never had been duplicated in the Wildcat lair. Uniforms once white, sodden and mud-caked now, were flung to the ceiling. Shoulder pads, helmets and bloodsoaked bandages whizzed across the spacious locker room. For a few uproarious seconds the Wildcats went simply wild. Lynn Waldorf, Northwestern Grid’s Mighty coach, wandered around as if in a happy daze. “That game and the way those boys of mine played took my breath away,” he gasped. “Those boys have surprised me all sea- son and I'm beginning to believe we have a ball club at last.” Athletic Director Tug Wilson re- turned from the Minnesota dress- ing room with & message from Bernie Bierman, coach of the vanquished gophers. “We've been ‘getting the breaks for & long time and now it was Northwestern's turn to get them for awhile,” Bierman said. “The Wildcats played a great game and I want to congratulate Northwestern on its great team. On a dry field I'm confident we could have scored. Now that the winning streak is broken maybe we can get going again.” Fall in Droves In Stunning Round of Upsets B3 the Assoctated Press. EADED by Minnesota's Gophers, the mighty fell in droves yes- terday in the greatest succes- sion of upsets this or possibly any other foot ball campaign ever saw, Stopped by Northwestern's Wildcats, 6-0, Minnesota saw its national and Big Ten championship dreams ex- ploded along with the shattering of a 21-game winning streak. Joining the Gophers on the beaten list were Yale, Army, Holy Cross and Villanove in the East and Texas A. and M. in the Southwest, while Fordham's Rams and Utah State, boasting hitherto spotless records, were tied. Fordham held Pitt’s formidable Panthers to a scoreless draw. Yale's opportunists found themselves over- matched and went down before Dart- mouth, 11-7. Army, was toppled, 14- 7, by Colgate’s Red Raiders. Holy Cross wound up on the short end of a 3-0 score against Temple’s Owls and Villanova succumbed to Bucknell, 6-0. This left the East without a single major untied and undefeated team. In the Southwest Texas A. and M. matched were the two teams. Ford- | ham gained 155 yards rushing to 144 for Pittsburgh. In the air, Pitt had a slight advantage, completing 3 out of 12 for 35 yards, while Fordham gained 15 yards by completing two out of six. folded before Arkansas’ aerial bar- rage, 18-0, while Baylor was buried by Texas Christian, 28-0. Southern Methodist had to come from'behind to spill Texas, 17-7. Rice outpointed George Washington, 12-6. Not the least of the, day's surprises was Harvard's feat in holding Prince- ton to a 14-14 draw. Boston College handed Michigan State & jolt in the shape of a 13-13 tie. Penn's powerhouse functioned perfectly in a 16-6 rout of Navy. Co- lumbia withstood a fourth-quarter rally by Cornell to win, 20-13. West Virginia defeated Western Maryland, 33-20. Nebraska chalked up another Bix Six triumph, beating Missouri, 20-0, as Jowa State and Oklahoma played & 7-7 draw. Kansas State bowed to ‘Tulsa, 10-7, as Kansas and Arizona drew, 0-0. In the South Louisiana State and Alabama earned Southeastern Confer- ence victories, the former stopping Vanderbilt, 19-0, while Alabama was knocking over Kentucky, 14-0. Ten- nessee showed tremendous power in & 46-0 shellacking of Georgia. Tulane, undefeated in the conference, had trouble winning from Louisiana Tech, 22-13, Maryland snd Georgia Tech were victims of upsets, the former los- ing to Florida, 7-6, and Tech bowing to Clemson, 14-13. Duke and North Carolina moved + 4+ + —By JIM BERRYMAN MORE OF a 6/ Fam—~ 5 50- THEY REALLY Do HAVE THOSE HURRICANES SALOR TEAN SUMK FARLY BY QUAKERS Victors Té"y Twice Before Annapolis Players Get Muscles Limbered. BY DILLON GRAHAM. Associated Press Sports Writer. HILADELPHIA, October 31— The Pennsylvania juggernaut rolled along at full force today, gained an early edge on Navy and swept through the Sailor defen- sives for a 16-to-6 triumph before up- ‘wards of 65,000 spectators. Under a warm sun, the Quaker powerhouse reached its peak of the year, fulfilling the promise it gave a ITortnight ago in upsetting Princeton, and scored twice before the Sailors had hardly gotten their muscles lim- bered up. Shooting off tackle in drives that bit off huge chunks in the Navy line, the Quakers drove 46 yards in five plays after the kick-off, and cashed in with a 22-yard field goal from an angle by Franny Murray. Penn Blocks Punt for Tally. INAVY took the kick-off, but the big Penn forwards smothered its ground attack and Jim Hauze blasted through to block Sneed Schmidt's punt. Bob Schuenemann, a husky end, gathered the bouncing ball on the 19-yard line and ran across the goal. The Midshipmen’s lone tally came soon afterward on & 35-yard pass toss that arched through the air and found Antrim in the clear. The real steam of the Quaker at- tack was turhed on in the third period when Bill Kurlish and Bill Miller repeatedly drove through holes in the Navy forewall for long gains. Kurlish scored on a 15-yard run down after & man-in-motion penalty had nullified Kurlish's m-nm! T dash the previous play. was l;‘.c.'nn‘l first triumph over the Satlors in four years and was Navy's third straight setback of the season. from Bill Ingram to Bob Antrim, & | eyso: around Navy's right flank for a touch- | E2 Murray. Sl SRetepes i S BT end les Navy TERPS BEATEN, 75, ON BLOCKED PUNT "Gators Get Ball, Mayberry Goes 24 Yards to Score in Final Quarter. BY JOHN W. WILDS, Associated Press Staff Writer. AINESVILLE, Fla, October 31.—Florida eked out a 7-to-8 victory over Maryland today in a nip and tuck foot ball thriller that had 40,000 homecoming fans gasping. Not until the final whistle did the winning point, place-kicked by Bugs Hendricks, look good enough to beat a powerful Maryland eleven. A break made for themselves by the outplayed 'Gators led to the decisive score in the fourth period. Late in the third, Fonia Pennington, substi- tute end, crashed through and partly blocked one of Jim Meade's punts and Ken Willis fell on the ball on the Maryland 23-yard line. Runs 24 Yards to Terp Goal. Hmnmcxs was thrown for a 1 yard loss as the period ended. On the first play of the Yourth, Walter Mayberry took a lateral pass behind the line of scrimmage and dashed around right end. Reversing his field, he cut past the Terrapin secondary and fell over the goal line 24 yards away. The run and Hendricks’ subsequent place-kick nullified the touchdown scored in the first quarter by Bill Guckeyson, brilliant Maryland back. A 38-yard pass from Guckeyson, | which Vic Willis snatched out of the hands of a Florida back, put the Old Liners’ on the 3-yard line. Guckeyson ran around left end for the score be< hind perfect interference. John Gormley, fullback, missed by inches the point which would have given the superior Maryland team a tie. Maryland Bid Futile. ARYLAND almost scaled the %% heights in the final period to snatch the game out of the fire. A great 65-yard punt by Paul ‘Brock—whose superb kicking was matched by the versatile Meade— backed the Terps up to their 15-yard line. Then came the most spectacular play of the game. Coleman Headley dropped back and shot a forward pass to the towering Willls, who cut through the secondary toward the sidelines. Just as he was tackled, he flipped & lateral to Bob Walton. Walton charged forward through the astounded Florida secondary, then tossed the ball to Meade. Meade stumbled a few yards and threw another lateral to Walton, who finally was brought down on the Florida 26 after a 59-yard gain. Bob Ivey ended the desperate Marye land advance by intercepting Guckey= son's pass, and punted out to the Maryland 40. Field Goal Try Fails. - THE Old Liners made one last effort. From the Florida 45, Gormley tried for a field goal. His placement was far short and the whistle blew before Florida could run a play. Maryland racked up 13 first downs to 6 for the "Gators. ‘The Old Line ends—Willis and Blair Smith—turned in brilliant per- formances. Several times they leaped to grab passes when interception ape peared inevitable. Florida’s grat goal-line stand came late in the second quarter. The Ter- rapins made a sudden stab for a touchdown when Coleman Headley passed 28 yards to Willis on the Florida 9. Meade went around right end to the 3. The defenders swarmed all over Meade on 2 runs and a pass fell harmlessly into the end zone. Line-ups and summary: Pos. Maryland (6). LE ___Willis 6 0 0 0—¢ -0 0 0 7—7 Touchdown—Gucke n. Florida scoring: _Touchdown—Mayber. 1y, Point after touchdown—Hendricks (biscement) e clals: eree—Mr. Arnol - 1 Gimpire——Mr. Powéll ‘(Witconsia: linesman—Mr. Gardner (Georgis Tech). " Field judge—Mr. Bradley (Stet- Statistics of the nd. g Pirst downs __ = g Yards gained Tushing - Forward passes attempted rward passes completed orward passes intercepte Y'ds gained by r'w'd passes_ Punting average __ _ _ _ Lateral passes attempted Lateral passes completed __ Lateral passes intercepted Yards gained by laterals Total yards kicks returned _ mbles Own_fumbles recovered Penalties (yards) . HITRL AR FORT HILL EASY VICTOR. Srecial Dispatch to The Star. CHARLES TOWN, W. Va., October 31.—Fort Hill High eleven of Cum- berland, Md., overpowered the Charleg ‘Town High eleven here this afternoon, anks | 32 to 13, Varied Sports Cross Country (low score wins). Penn State, 26; Syracuse, 29. Union, 23; Williams, 32. Navy Plebes, 15; Virginia Frosh, 40. Drake, 17; Kansas State, 38, Missouri, 17; Nebraska, 28. Cornell, 24; Yale, 38; Columbis, 58. N. Y. U, 20; Lafayette, 35, ‘Wisconsin, 26; Iowa, 30. Polo. Jowa Btate, 9; Illinois, 6. Soecer, Princeton, 2; 1. Brown, 3; Yale, 1.