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The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 49

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SECTION 5 Generals On Rain-Soaked Local Gridiron mmmmmasm iiiniiiiiiiiiiipHs iBiiBaai liisiiinsinniinsiiBii ward Surprises Football World With Triumph Over Yale Centre 25 vard 10 Indiana Purdue 7 i Michigan 38 14 Syracuse Chicago i Ohio State 0 Minnesota 0 Northwestern 0 Dartmouth 7 Wisconsin 3 Centre College Easily Takes the Measure of How Centre Vanquished Washington and tee dngton and Lee THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1921. Colonels Rout th Ha Eli, Heavy Favorite, Humbled By Crimson In Thrilling Contest With Yale Leading 3 to 0, Buell Runs Back Punt Thirty, seven Yards and Owen Makes Twelve to Goal In Three Plunges, Also Drop Kicks. CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 19. (Associated Press).

A Crimson victor; the success of Harvard spirit and Harvard system marked the tg. nual Yale-Harvard game today. The score was 10 to 3. -It was a last-period victory in which a touchdown by Owen, a goal kicked from (t by Buell, and a goal from the field by Owen, gave th team of Captain Keith Kane points which surpassed the three gained bj Tale through the field goal of Captain "Mac" Aldrich, kicked In the fa: quarter. The Harvard triumph was unexpected generally, coming at the close a season of uncertainty for the Crimson eleven and of previously 0j! broken success by Tale.

It caused an unprecedented triple- tie in tt, standing among the "big three" Princeton the winner over Harvard; Muddy Field Lessens Brilliance of Contest Colonels Aggressors Most of Time With Generals Resisting Deter-minedly Pass, McMillin to Armstrong, Feature. EFORE a gathering that was a word, Centre College yesterday Eclipse Park by the score of 25 home crowd in every sense of the defeated Washington and Lee at to 0. It was Kentucky last chance to WB "wonder team action ana rsiugiiis. i3vu.iiia. Purchase were there to pay homage to Bo McMillin and his gallant com- radCThe score tells the story of the struggle.

The Generals were hopeless-ly outclassed, but one of the finest exhibitions of grit ever witnessed on a local gridiron time and again curtailed Centre marches and cut short by several touchdowns the score that would have been tallied against an aggregation of similar strength but less game. Once Washington and Lee held and the ball went to them six inches from their goal line. Another time they held for downs one yard from their base. It was such determi-iiation that prevented the contest becoming a rout. While the game was a struggle- me viciui over xaie.

This fortieth Yale-Harvard can. was played in the Harvard stadinn before a crowd of almost 55,000, and the organized cheering, the outbursts of applause, the mass songs and th band concerts that are traditlonil with these contests, all enlivened and colored the picture. Mireh of Triumph. At the close, the Harvard adhtr. ent.s poured from the stands into tie I gridiron, tne unmson nana became the head of a column of cheering hundreds that soon were twlstlnt and squirming up the field and acroa again in a serpentine march of triumph.

To the Harvard victory, in which its football coaching system fashtaed the strategy and dictated the tactics and its football playing spirit carried the team fighting through three periods of opposition by a heavier tod harder hitting team, several players contributed notably. They wtfi Owen, Buell, Fitts, Chapin and Kant. With Yale leading 3 to 0, the. gams turned In the third period on BueH's i feat in running back, through most of the Yale team, a punt which he caught at midfield. His dash cot- I ered thirty-seven yards, carrying thi ban to laies twelve-yard line.

Opening the fourth period, on ths next line-up, Buell capitalized the ement of deception through a delayed forward pass for an advance eight yards. A burst against the Blue line lacked inches of first down. Owen gathered strength for another assault and carried not only the down but the goal, plunging over the Yale forwards. Chapin Gets. Ball.

Yale put on an impulsive "riinninB attack on the next kickoff, Aldrich and O'Hearn stabbing through for long gains and Jordan for short jabs. They carried to Harvard's la-yard line, weakening as they went, heir- I ever, and Chapin, a substitute in the i Harvard backfield, then blossomd into a Crimson rambling star'with run of 'fifty yards after intercepts a Yale forward pass tossed by O'Hearn. Fitts pressed forward' twenty-tw Yale, tamers or- the Tigers; uarvaru Danville Alumni Luncheon Guests VISITING alumni of Centre College and Central University will be guests of the local Centre College Alumni Association at luncheon at 1 o'clock today at the PendenniS Club. It was impossible to send invitations all alumni who came to see Hie game, officers of the Association stated, and the old grads are expected to attend upon invitations through the press. Best Looking Ball Captain Ever Saw Cambridge, ijov.

sociated Press). Keith Kane, captain of the Harvard eleven that defeated Yale today, left the Crimson dressing room after the game richer by pne football. "It's about the best looking pig-iskin I ever saw," he said, with a grin. The leather oval will find permanent repose in the Harvard trophy room. Coach Bob Fisher said he was delighted with the victory over Yale.

"Certainly no Harvard team worked against greater odds and the victory is all the sweeter therefore," he said. "I have nothing but the highest praise for the Yale team. They showed only the cleanest sportsmanship. "The work of Captain Aldrich was remarkable. No one can say that Tad Jones hasn't made big strides toward bringing Yale football back to its former high standard." Coach Jones refused to discuss the game from any angle.

California Retains runner to the ground. Picture at right shows effectiveness of Centre line. Tiiis was typical of the manner In which the Colonels piled up the Generals' plays without gain. Mc-Millin Is seen back of his line playing without stockings. He wore none in yesterday's game.

Upper photograph shows Covington rounding the Generals' right end for a long gain. Below, at left, Roberts is seen In a characteristic play. He is rushing over to get In front of the Washington and Lee charge, which lie did, bringing the Centre College to Play In San Diego SAN DIEGO, Calif, Nov. 19 (Associated Press). Centre College of Kentucky, conquerors of the Harvard eleven, accepted Invitation tendered by the City of San Diego to participate in a football gameto be played at the stadium hero on December 26, according to announcement today by the San Diego Chamber of Commerce.

The opponent for Centre College will be selected Monday. Colonels To Meet Texas Fort Worth, Nov. 19 (Associated Press). Centre College has accepted an invitation to play the Texas Christian University football eleven here on January 7. a letter from Coach Moran of the Kentucky school received today by the university athletic officials said.

Great Lakes Wins Title From Sailors Great Lakes, 111., Nov. 19 (Associated Press). The Great Lakes Naval Training Station won the Inter-Training station championship of the country today when the Great Lakes football team defeated a sailor eleven representing Hampton Roads, by a score 14 to 0. By winning the game, Great Lakes team secures the trophy offered by the Bureau of Navigation for the championship team of the training stations east of the Mississippi River. Broivn Beats Colgate.

Providence, R. Nov. 19 (Associated Press). Brown closed its football season on Andrews Field here this afternoon by defeating Colgate, 7 to in a loose game on a slow field. Brown's touchdown, made by Paasche.

came in the first few minutes play when Colgate lost the ball on downs shortly, after the kick-off, and Brown marched down the field in a series of line plunges, not once resorting to a pass or a kick. Surprise for Oberlin. Oberlin, Nov. 19 (Associated Press). Western Reserve football team sprang a surprise on the Oberlin eleven today, holding the local team a score of 7 to 0 in favor of Oberlin.

Oberlin's one touchdown was scored the first period and was the result a great run by Woods, who raced sixty yards through the Reserve line. Title of the Coast Stanford, Nov. 19 (Associated Press). California retained the Pacific Cease Conference football title today by defeating Stanford 42 to 7 in the new Cardinal stadium before approximately 57,000 persons. The power of the Bear football machine which has not been defeated in two years was too 'much for the fighting Cardinals.

They were unable to stop the Bears backfield in its line attacks or around the ends. Conference Title Goes To Unbeaten Hawkeyes Through Buckeyes' Loss (Continued on Page 4, Column i.l fe every minute of its duration its was not the brilliant exhibition that had been anticipated. Heavy rains of the preceding two days had rendered the field so muddy that consistent speed was. out of the question and the offensive tactics of both elevens was badly hampered. Roberts Present.

With fast play at a premium there was not the usual opportunity for individual performances that stand out in a game. Bo McMillin was the usual Bo in a curtailed way. Probably the soggy footing cramped his style more than that of any other player. Bed Roberts was there always. Defensively he seemed to be on both ends of the line and in the center.

Nonchalantly he turned back drive after drive of the visitors. Covington, Snoddy and others also garnered their meed of praise, but it was the team as a whole that carried off the honors. Although the spectators naturally saw little beyond Centre's excellence, there was one man on the eleven who frequently Hashed into tho pictures in colors so lurid that he became a considerable part of the scenery, lie was Captain Moore of the Generals. A giant in build, Moore also possessed the speed of his slighter colleagues and time and again he broke up Centre plays in the making. He tore through his side of the Centre Jine with such regularity that was obliged to deem him among those present before the play fairly started.

Potts, at the other tackle far Washington and Lee, also was a powerful participant. Not until the final quarter did the contest develop a feature such as usually marks games in which Centre takes part. In this period, with the ball on the General's 25-yard line, went back 10 yards behind the line of scrimmage and tossed the oval to Captain Armstrong, who was standing on the Virginians' goal line. Arm strong plunged over for the Colonels' final score. The Centre line was a stonewall from beginning to end.

The Generals did not make a first down in the first half of the game. In the final analyst-Washington and Lee lost more ground In penalties than it gained in rushes. Roberts Kicks Off. Roberts kicked off to Tucker on the ten-yard line. Tucker brought the ball back ten yards.

A line smash netted but a yard, but Centre was offside and was penalized five. It was first down. McDonald punched left guard for three yards. The Centre line held against two line bucks and it was fourth down with four yards to go. Frew punted to McMillin, who was downed without gain on his 35-yard line.

A line thrust by McMillin lost two feet. Snoddy hit the line for 2. Roberts crashed through right guard for 6 yards. Roberts punted to the Generals' 20-yard line, and Tucker returned the ball 20 yards before being downed. The Kentucky line was invincible, and Tucker was thrown back without gain.

Frew made two through guard and then punted, Armstrong being downed (Continued On Pnse 4, Colnmn 4.) Wttk evesy same of the 0, of to in of Winchester Defeats Morganfield Eleven Special to The Courier-Journal. Morganfield, Ky Nov. 19. In Kentucky High School football today the East met the West and in a hard-fought contest the East, represented by Winchester, defeated the West, represented by Morganfield, by a score of 16 to 0. This is the first defeat of the season for Morganfield, which claims the Western Kentucky cham pionship.

Winchester has gone unde feated in the East, having lost by a small margin only to Male High School and Manual in Louisville. Coach Webb of Winchester after the game said in Conway McMurray, captain and left tackle of the team, Morganfield easily has the best High School tackle in the State. The game was ptirilllng throughout. Either team bid to win until the last quarter by a series of brilliant forward passes. Winchester succeeded in crossing the goal line for two touchdowns.

Dartmouth Defeated. New York, Nov. 19 (Associated Press). Syracuse humbled Dartmouth, 14 to 7, on a heavy gridiron at the Polo Grounds today. The orange played a superior game, and the green was lucky to escape a more decisive score.

Two of the tallies were made on sensational runs following fumbles. In the second period Mack Rae picked up a poor pass to Capt. Robertson and ran 45 yards for a score. In the third period Frugone of Sj-racuse missed a punt. Lynch picked up the ball and scurried 30 yards for a touchdown for Dartmouth.

GRIDO SODKES suit- EVANSTON, Nov. 19. The University of Iowa football eleven today plowed its way through a mud covered and rain soaked field to the Western Conference Championship and to the Championship of the Middle West by defeating Northwestern University 14 to 0 while Illinois was eliminating Ohio State from the race in a game which was the biggest upset of the season. Despite Iowa's victory, the North western University eleven brought honors to its school by the determined stand it made against an eleven which it had been predicted would triumph by a score of from thirty to forty to nothing. The champion Iowans were held scoreless in the third and fourth periods and shoved over a touch' down in each of the first two quar ters.

The defeat of Northwestern left Town, undefeated this season, the team's record in the conference being five games won and none lost. In addition, Notre Dame, conqueror of Nebraska and also of the Army was defeated, thus giving the Hawkeyes an apparently clear title to the middle western championship as well as to the Big Ten honors. The muddy field, covered with water a foot deep in some places, made it impossible for the players to get a foothold ana both elevens resorted to desperate forward passing attempts. The mud proved too great a handicap here also and few of the heaves were successful. The best pass of the day came In the first four minutes of play and brought the Hawkeyes their first score.

After working the ball down to the Purple's 35-yard line, Aubrey Devine shot a pretty pass to his brother Glenn, who went twenty yards to a touchdown. In the second period, consistent line plunging by Locke, the Iowan's big fullback, combined with clever interference by Glenn Devine for his brother Aubrey's end run brought the ball to Northwestern's three-yard line and Locke then lunged for another touchdown. A. Devine kicked both goals. The second half found Iowa content to play a safe steady game, although opening up at times in attempts to increase the score.

Northwestern rallied, however, and by some consistent playing kept the Hawkeyes away from the goal Besides the two Devines and Locke, Slater and Beldlng were the stars for Iowa. Slater particularly was of great help to his eleven, opening big holes in the line and breaking up Northwestern plays at their inception. The lineup: Northwestern Position McElwaine L. E. H.

Penfield L. T. Saunders L. G. Hathaway C.

Iowa Minick Hcldt G. Penfield G. Lane R. Slater Taylor R. Belding Blumenthal A.

Devine Palmer L. H. Grausnick R. G. Devine Paterson l- Locke Score by quarters: Northwestern 0 0 0 0 0 Iowa 7 7 0 0 14 Iowa scoring: Touchdowns, G.

De-vine, Locke. Goals from touchdowns, A. Devine (2). Referee Birch, Earl-ham; Umpire Nichols, Ohio; Field Judge Eckersall, Chicago: Head linesman Sand, Wisconsin. Time of periods, 15 minutes.

Joe McGuinness, the Jersey City boxing promoter, is trying- to arrange a bout between Willie Jackson and Rocky Kansa, Centre College, Lee, 0. Harvard, 10; Yale, 3. Indiana, Purdue, 0. Illinois, Ohio State, Oi Michigan, 38; Minnesota, 0. Iowa, 14; Northwestern, 0.

Syracuse, 11; Dartmouth, 7. Chicago, Wisconsin, 0. Wiliams, 40; Wesleyan, 0. Hamilton, Union, 0. New Hampshire, 13; Holy Cross, 7.

Butler, 28; Franklin, 0. St. Xuvier, 13; Ohio Northern, 0. Johns Hopkins, 17; St. John's, 3.

Swarthmore, 55; Haverford, 0. Carnegie, 21; Maryland, 0. Gettysburg, 28rMount St. 0. Massachusetts Agl.

College, 14; Tufts, 0. University ot New York, Trinity College North Carolina, 7. Kalamazoo College, 15; Alma College, 0. Boston College, 10; Georgetown, 14. Wittenberg, Ohio Wesleyan, 0.

Nebraska, 35; Ames, 3. Rutgers, 17; West Virginia, 7. Pennsylvania li 19; Cornell Freshmen, 7. Lafayette, 28; Lehigh, 6. Case, 28; Kenyon, 0.

Scott High, 34; Johnstown, High, 0. Wabash, 22; Depauw, 0. Oberlin, Western Reserve, 0. Drown, Colgate, 0 Carnegie Tech 21; Maryland, 0. Notre Dame, 21; Marquette, 7.

Bucknell, 62; Susquehanna, 7. Denison, Heidelberg, 0. Hiram, Otterbein. 0. University of Buffalo, Rensselaer, 0.

Niagara University, 13; St. Ignatius College, 6. Fordham, 14; Springfield, 0. Bethany 67; West Virginia Wesleyan, 0. University of Georgia 22; University of Alabama 0.

Tulane 21; Louisiana State 0. North Carolina State 14; Wake Forest 0. Oregon Aggies University of Oregon 0 (tie). University of Idaho Gonzaga 0. University of Arizona 24; University of New Mexico 0.

Delaware Penn Military College 0. California 42; Stanford 7. Kansas Aggies 14; Oklahoma 7. South Dakota Stato Crelgh-ton 0. University of Colorado 10; Colorado State Aggies 0.

Wabash Downs Depauw. Indianapolis. 19 (Associated Press). Depauw crumbled before the Wabash College football team's powerful backfield here today and was beaten 22 to 0. Ripping drives by Singleton, ranged from 12 to 28 yards paved the way for the most of the visitors' points.

He also made a dropkick. Depauw had only one good opportunity to score when the ball was placed on Wabash's five-yard line on a fumble and a penalty. In three plunges Depauw made but two yards and the ball was lost when an attempted forward pass was in-comploted. material suit I The Smartest I Men' Fashions Mtf I For The Day 1 1 Or Ml IJ jj For Go -To -Business 1 Or GoGolfing; lw( I For A Week-End 11 I Or A Wedding a I Stein-Bloch Smart Clothes I Men's Furnishings AndHats I Not Expensive Early choosing is best especially from the three feature assortments of handsome imported and domestic suitings at This great semi-annual sale merits immediate consideration. Select any fabric in the house let us tailor-to-your-measure a perfect fitting, finely made suit and get an extra pair of trousers of the same material to double the life of your suit at exactly ONE-HALF regular price.

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