Football

Of the 200 games that sent the season into full swing last week, the most spectacular single play was a 90-yd. runback of North Carolina's first kick-off by Krouse of Tennessee. A point behind at halftime, Tennessee managed to pound out a touchdown in each of the last two periods, 19-to-7.

In the days when halfbacks wore handlebar mustaches and laced their canvas jackets up the front, football rivalry between Yale and Columbia was a fixture of the sport. They played 17 games. Yale won all but the fourth game in 1875, and the one in 1899, when famed Halfback Harold Weekes ran 70 yd. for a touch down that counted five points and won the game.

Last week, for the first time in 29 years, Yale played Columbia again under different conditions. Opening his season against last year's Rose Bowl Champions was a trying test for Yale's new coach, "Ducky" Pond. Instead of Harold Weekes, Columbia's backfield threat was a swarthy fat-jowled Austrian, Al Barabas. The thing about last week's game which reminded oldsters of Harold Weekes was Barabas' run in the first period--70 yd. to a touch down that counted six points.* Playing hard, evenly matched football on a slippery field, both teams scored in the second half, but Barabas' six points were as good as Weekes's five. Columbia 12, Yale 6.

At Berkeley, Calif. the biggest crowd of the week (65,000) saw St. Mary's turn a fumble into a touchdown in the first four minutes of play, check a lumbering California offense for the next two hours, 7-to-0.

Undefeated since 1931, Michigan prepared for an easy game against its traditional intrastate victim, Michigan State. Halfback Steve Sebo kicked the field goal, Halfback Warmbein made the two touch downs that gave Michigan State its first victory over Michigan since 1915, 16-to-0.

Coached by a Notre Dame alumnus, Jack Chevigny, a Texas University team sent Notre Dame's new coach, Elmer Layden, off to a bad start, 7-to-6.

The rule making it illegal to run with an opponent's recovered fumble five years ago caused a commentator to say "There goes Princeton's offense." Coached to do more than capitalize their opponent's blunders, with eight members of the only major team that was unbeaten and untied last year, Princeton gave evidence that its new football regime under Coach "Fritz" Crisler was still in full momentum. It rolled up a score of 75-to-0, against Amherst.

At Los Angeles, a crowd of 50,000 saw Washington State check Southern California's 145-lb., All-America Quarterback Irvine Warburton, defeat their opponents for the first time since 1930, 19-to-0.

*Harold Weekes is now a Manhattan stockbroker.

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