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play Tulane Crushes Vanderbilt 34-14 With Great Power Dis i i I- 1 Mill" it f. V' WS'k ittlt Photo hi Clkrt i i. m.rm rnmmnilnwi' fir tnufhdown from the one-yard line. i I. 1 i1- Part of the 22,200 fn who ww TuUne roll over Vanderbilt yetterday at uuoiey aioium.

mei. Vols Rally fro Overcome S. U. Razzle for 13 to 6 Triumph Mazhr Spark? Army as Irish Are Tied-Navy Hands Penn First Loss in Mud A it. II.

Green Wave Rallies Middies Maul Cadets Outplay Alabama Tide Engulfs One Man's Opinion The Tuane That Licked Vanderbilt Could Have Murdered Any Club in Nation, Say Expert Quakers, 13-6; South Benders Kentucky Cats, 30-0 To Gain Triumph Outweighed Commodores Take Early Lead; Gain Third Period Deadlock By RAYMOND JOHNSON Chagrined by the ease with which Vanderbilt scored an emrfy Dawson Raies Commodores Best Green's Met i i Busikls Hero -By RAYMOND JOHNSON- Before 75,000 Soldiers Regain Spot Crimson Power Far Too1 Much For Kentucky Tulane's Green Wave. pigskin pygmy one week and a jrridiron goliath the next, could have beaten any team in the nation Saturday. At least, that was the general Bamming Bill Sparks Drives of 51 and 70 Yards for Touchdowns In Big Time by Great touchdown, Tulane's Green Wave roared back with venKeance ana in Vanderbilt's perfect record scattered all over Dudley Field Saturday. opinion of the majority or tne press uox exptMu, Orange I Gallops 60 Yards For Touchdown BATON ROUGE, 1., Nov. 1 BP) Louisiana Stat got the break but Tnne.sot th ecoret that turned back the Bengal Tisers 13 to 6 today before a football crowd of 30.000.

johnny (Gone With The Wind) Butler. Jim Gaffney and Jim Brhwartzinffer. atar Tennessee bitter battle had been compieiea aim uiey The giants from New Orleans, a team wnicn naa everytniriK PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1 machine should have, rolled up as Navy's tQptbaH men. to" It Victor "'Ml hnjr their typewriters.

But the writers-were not -the -enly-ones-tbat -thought bo highly of these Tulane titans who are difficult to under- Steamrollered! Play; Bertelli Halted NEW YORK, Nov. 1 UP-Mud, mire ajid hard-bitten Army halfback from Lowell, combined to hold a favored Notre Dame football team to a scoreless tie today. At the end of an afternoon of slipping, sliding and sloshing over the Yankee Stadium gridiron aU the players were so many mystery men, so far as Identification was By LEROY SIMMS TUSCALOOSA, Nov. 1 JP) A star-studded Alabama team had a wide margin over Kentucky today to gain a 30-0 victory in their Southeastern Conference contest before a slim homecoming day crowd of 10,000. Paced by its all-conference star, Jimmy Nelson, the winners drove for touchdowns in ach of the first three periods, am then turned proceedings over to their second better sailors in the mud and rain of this gridiron which was more like a yachting course today and whipped Pennsylvania's favored Quakers 13-6 to remain among the nation's mightiest outfits.

Snapping back from the scoreless deadlock they played with Harvard a week ao the only spot on stand. Red Dawson, boss oi tne ureenuacRs, Sanders, leader of the fallen Commodores, had nothing but praise for the marvelous exhibition of power the New Orleans folks exhibited. Their lieutenants had the same high regard. "We were higher today than any Tulane team has heart-tingling duel of dynamite. 22,000 SEE GAME More than 22,000 spectators, the largest crowd to see a game here in four years, were shocked and amazed, not only at the size of the score but also at the barbaric power and speed the mantadons displayed.

Reunite the terrific force with Talaaa It ,0 I 7 1 JO ".5 i 0 VaadT First downs ,10 Yds tamed rushlns ineti 12J Forward passes attempted 21 Forward Passes completed 10 Yds. sained forw passes 1 Yds lost, att'd forw passes 21 Fordward passes, inlerec 0 Yds ad. run of int. passes Puntlnt av. ifrom scrim i 38 4 Total vdv all kicks ret JJ Opponents' ftimhles recov 1 Yards lost penalties II backs, were the difference.

L. 8. pony halfbacks, Leo Bird and Billy McKlnney, kept the Vols dizzy with a razzle-dazzle brand of football that had fight 11 the way. Louisiana scored first, late in the an otherwise bright clean slate for concerned. But there was no doubt In the minds of the 75.000- been since I have been tne coacn.

uawson aiu mat believe if we had played against Ole Miss and Rice as we did today, we would have blown them clear out of which the Greenles ran and block odd spectators that, obscured as he might be by muck, Cadet Hank More Power the stadium. Vanderbilt is the best team we have met Navy Mightier Than Penn NSTT Penn ed, the scrap was not as one-sided as the scoreboard figures might lead one to believe. The Commodores, outmanned but a staggering band of lads giving everything to the dark end, fought their much this season. They gained more yardage on us man any other. They gave us a terrific battle and we naa to De First downs 1 Yds.

ssioxl bT rushtnt mttl 230 Forwsrii passes attcmpttd 4 Mazur was the star of the game. 120 TO 86 YARDS Mazur. who laat year helped another underdog Army team outfight if not out score the Irish, was on of the Cadets' three 00-mlnute men. It was his running, off tackle and definitely on and put out our best. a.

3 flin this fall when It was behind. They changed what appeared to be a Vandy frolic in the early minutes into a fatality. The murderous Greenles, With Robert Glass the most troublesome of the lot, surged back to knot the score early In the second quarter. A break greatly aided them, lust first period, starting from their own 49. Fullback Walter Gorlnskt jnade 15 in two plays over left guard.

Bird added six more through the same spot, then Gorlnskt went to the Tennessee 27. Bird faded back and whipped a pass to End Dudley Pillow on the five, and Pil- low. went across to score. Center Bernle Llpkis missed the kick. 0-YARD GALLOP The Volunteers took the klckoff "Tulane was great today aanaers remarncu u.o- Alt.

Kr. Firrt dowm 11 Ydn. mnrd rmhint 36 1) Forward puet attempted 7 13 Forward Dat completed i 3 Yrd gained bT pasaes 7 17 Pnrw'd parses mterce br 1 0 Yds. gained run's, of 10 I Yds. lost attemo's to paaa 0 13 Punt'l av.

(from aerrni .31. ft 40 5 xTotal vds. kicka raturned 146 Opponents' fumbles recoT'd 1 3 Yards lost by penalty Ss ix, Includes punta and klckoffa. 5 It 10 5 3 1 1 13 31 1 45 cussing the game. "Considering the competition, we play heavier foes tooth and toe-nau.

Not until the last period, when the terrific atrain had taken its toll on Vanderbilt's small squad, did the Greenbacks ever gain anything Forward passes rompleted 2 Yds sainrd br forward passes 14 Yards lost, attempted forward passes 0 Forward passes Int. br. Yds. sslned. runback of intercepted passes Plintlns averase 'from scrim 40 Toisl yards, kicks returned SI Opponents' fumbles recovered 4 Yard lrst by penslties 20 ed our best game oi tnis season, miane was a mc rough and tough.

We have no alibis. We were beaten by a better team. Some of the old timers told me after as another breaK made poasiote their second touchdown about two punis ana siisum. the game that Tulane had the most powenui team mey minutes later. and third elevens, who made two more in the final minutes against a that resembled a comfortable margin.

In fact, less than seven and a half minutes remained in the most bruising battle waged here in years when Tulane registered its fourth touchdown. Up until this tally, the Goldmen were very much in the hart ever aren on Dudley Field. after the L. S. U.

score and started 4 their own touchdown drive. Butler ran the klckoff to his own 33, lashed off left tackle for seven TIE IN THIRD PERIOD the season the Midshipmen not around the ends, that plied up most of Army's 120 yards rushing (to 86 for Notre Dame), and above all it was his punting, for an average of 39 yards a boot, that helped keep Notre Dame from getting into position for any serious threats. With this showing Army, in its first season under Civilian Coach Red Blaik, definitely regained its place in football big-time. Both clubs had come up to this battle unbeaten and untied, and what tiring wildcat squad. only knocked the hlgh-and-mighty Pennsylvanians off the unbeaten perch, but outplayed them in the iNeison inaugurated me scoring parade with a 19-yard run la the first period after penalties had aided In placing the ball in (Coring Vanderbilt electrified the crowd with a screened pass on which Bernle Rohling.

a heroic figure, rambled 70 yards for a touchdown en the first play from scrimmage after the second half klckoff. Then I feel certain they were correct. Tulane had the manpower and they gave us a sound beating." "I thought our boys were as game as any I ever saw. They gave everything they had and I feel sorry for them. I was mighty proud of the way they played Hold That ligerl gridiron goo all tha way.

Thev collided, these two big fel game. GREATLY OUTWEIGHED Vanderbilt, gaining 243 yards with Hs infantry and aerial attaclf, collected more yardage than any other Taam. V. territory, his za-yara run carriea to the Kentucky 2 in tht third (Continued en Pay 10) lows of Eastern football, before a sell-out crowd of 73,391 fans. Jack Jenkins, who had personally 7 1 and have nothing but praise for them.

"I thought the officiating was pretty good." Better Than '31 "lfty Hayne, Tulane end coach and a member of the 1931 Green Wave team 'that went to the Rose Bowl, rates the current euperlor to that of 10 year ago. "This team has more power," first downa Yards sainrd ruthlni met) Forward paasea attempted Forward Passes completed (Continued en Page 10) With Naw BlU Busik showing 31 71 Yards bv lorwara passing ai bi iui registered the first seven points, place-kicked the extra and the numerals were snarled at 14-all aids lost attempted forward the wav. the Midshipmen marched 51 yards to their first touchdown team had against tne ureen wave this fall. The Greenles, who had an 18-10 advantage in first downs, advanced the ball 337 yards for the afternoon, which should give one fair nipture of the marvelous bat Lata in this smarter, another Gorinski Dents Vol Forewall for Brief Gain tidal wave struck the Commodores In the opening quarter, ana ioi-towed 1t tip with a 70-yard parade in (he deciding tally in the third Forward passes Intercepted bT Yards talned. runbacH of Intercepted pssses Funtint averass tfrem werHn mass) Total Tarda, all kicks re- turned P'J fumbles recovered 0 and the Greenles moved out in 37 711 front, never to be halted.

They chapter. I I aF i The Quakers were able to reany Yards lost br penslties lit" Haynes declared, "but it does not untraek themselves in the sloppy have the poise that our 19JI team added two more touchdowns In the last period. Jack Jenkins started tha Commodores off right when he klckoff almost Into the stands, the ball hlttlnk- the wire. That prevented footing only once during the pro did. I expect thl team is a better tle the Commodores, outweighed 29 pounds to the man, gave against terrific odds.

The Commodores racked up their first touchdown with seemingly such little effort that many in the vast throng had visions of a Tulane rout. But the Green Wave came back, something that it had not been able to do a single time all-around club. ceedings. This came late in tne third period, when Joe Kane topped off a 42-yard drive with a "Vanderbilt'a the best team we have played, and when I say any possibility of th 'dangerous Greenbacks from returning It for tfvat T'm not trylne to soft-soap 33-yard Rhumba down tne soum-side line to Penn's only touch Vatoderbllt followers. We just- demoralizing touchdown as they A strains) North Carolina two more.

On the next play Schwart-linger cut outside L. S. right tackle and made a flashy broken-field 60-yard run for a touchdown. Charley Mitchell converted. Butler kicked out of bounds twice on the L.

S. U. two-yard tripe in the fourth period, but each time Bird kicked out of danger. Then the Volunteers' machine Started marching 43 yards for the down. -MmfVd overpowered them and we got some good breaks." weeks ago.

The visitors punted out of bounds on Vandy's 45. Then th Tulane Best Team in America Goldmen. Kraaninr ODDOrtunitT Dy hand ramhlarf rlnwn tha field score, which cam live Yesterday, Sports Writer Says Touchdown Needed It the Commodores had scored a second time in the first period, when they threatened, they might have won, even as great as Tulane was. For It is doubtful if tha r.r.nlea would have had minutes and 14 seconds after the klckoff. JENKINS SCORES FIRST last toucnaown.

uairney, on a re-Verse from Fullback Bill Nowling, went off right tackle for 20 yards. Butler passed to Gaffney for eight more. Gaffney hit left tackle for three and on the next play Nowling again worked the reverse to Gaffney wno raced 12 yards for the core. Mitchell's kick was wide. Rernia Rohlint circled his own Stewart Says They'd Have Licked Gophers; Gammon Wonders How They Could Ever Lose for the Vandv-Tulane game wrote left flank for nine.

Art Rebrovich, wno gave a grana exniuiuon uw- the unflagging determination and matchless courage that they spite his hospital aesslon. with a cold, awunsr wide around right end different versions but all agreed it was one of ths hardest In years. Tells: Tke llaeass: and as Jenkins and J. P. Moor exhibited if they had been 14 points behind.

When a team Is mired that badly in the ruck. It aiolrlnm has the inspiration to namsarta ttiii, to Here are some excerpts iron, meir Wrote- Walter Stewart of the Memphis Commercial Appeal: ii imarlra'a heat football team this cleared tha way, raced 21 yards to ill. Ii lkTa.Ajllaa.a I a 1 Skaa A SBSSk W.tSki it i p. 1 i 1 IM'- ,1 1 luiane may i lllfj at) la IISBUIIIK allVUCSJ IV Tawissussw the sticks on fourth down. Jenkins shot through left guard for seven come back and reach the heights Um fleunlH rllft autumn day.

We have never een an eleven wnicn coum w.n, power in such aevastaiing ours is, wunu punches from any Migle. Tulane was playing the ort of game i. Tt wis nulllnsr aa a unit blocking yards to place the ball five short of the goat Rebrovich swung round right end and needed yard But, at the same time, Vanderbilt, which wm 20 point behind, ran the ball from their own 10 to mldfield in the laat two one nas supposed mat wmv. with brutal brilliance and putting sweaty paws upon every opportunity. Kutukl Nawllas 1 i V-VX---.

minutes. "In addition to its vasuy superior hroad smiles from the gods. So Vanderbilt Is licked at last. i ksLL '-11 TawiiUwasi rlllaw. S.kwartslnsar, Call "Z- Ull.h.M I at wnen ne was nnauy etowneo.

Jenkins went through guard, bounced off Blandln and slipped across for the score. Then he fata In IK la ttArleijf Well, they played it with greatt' with deer, reserves in the ll.a.tlt.llaas- L. S. U. Cas, talkfraan, The Goldmen scored their first touchdown with such ease that few thought the Green Wave would be more than a few nIM riffles on tha water.

But llekssaae. ftl. sTasis, w. naiiana front line trenches. Vanderbilt rtMn'r heat Tutana but we don't EdwarSs: Canltr, Talisr: aaa, T7 iiia.nnsssiiiis.nl bravery and great They have won most of their ball games by out-thinking and cut-running tha esihar sruv.

Thev never had 4irlnkl. Bira. WMr. Harris, films think Minnesota could have beaten knocked again but the Commodores tHI WlreDhota they seemed to take life when I airnu ssMir.c I. ki.u 1sWsltae I twa vsrda In BATON ROUGE, La, Nov.

14X1 Walter the gam which Tsnnsssee wen, 1J (Continued en Psg J). (Continued en Pag S), the (am to fight off big, tough Cerlnskl (30), rlyht, U. fullback picks up here today. Mak. CUara.

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