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Harvard 20 Army 6 Pitt 13 Fordham 0 Penn State 34 Syracuse 19 Texas U. 7 Baylor 7 Notre Dame 20 Havy 13 Minnesota 9 Nebraska 0 Cornell 21 Yale 7 Stanford 13 So. Calif. 0 Alabama 19 Tulane 14 PUBLIC cgftb LEDGER IFootbaM Great Wave of Upsets Four Teams Left Decline of Fordham Texas Eleven Tied Minnesota Extended Bv Herbert W. Barker PHILADELPHIA.

SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 9. 1941 a Penn Beats Columbia, 19-16 Temple Gomes From Behind To Shade Villanova, 14-13 Toiicliflowii IMav Fails Welsh of Penn Slops Columbia Back's Scoring Threat In Wild Finish Before 50,000 Referee Punched in Face After Recalling Lion Gain; Quakers Yield Safety in 4th By CY PETERMAN It was Bedlam by the Schuylkill yesterday as Pennsylvania called on every device except the Legislature to beat a brilliant Columbia grid squad by three scanty points. While a crowd of 50,000 went almost frantic and the of ficials went with them as they to bring on a slight mob scene at the finish, the Red and Blue, with Lady Luck in its backfield, staved off the Lions by a count Zaikowski's Kick Decides As Owls Rally Hy STAN HAUMCAUTNER By the margin of a single point, that all-important conversion for the extra counter after a touchdown, Temple University triumphed over Villanova, 14-13, at the Owl Qf oflinm vnci nrrl 30,000 thrilled fans their 14th annual battle. The perfect placement kick made by Henry Zajkowski in the early moments of the fourth quarter after Temple had tied the score at 13-13 with a spectacular forward pass the Owls their second straight victory in what was probably the most spectacular game of the entire series.

FITTING CLIMAX It was a thrilling climax to a struggle that teemed with excitement, tense situations and breath-takins moments from the first whistle a that left the huge throng wilted at the finish. Each team scored two touchdowns the Owls good on both tries for the extra point, Villanova failed on the boot that counted. OWLS STAGE RALLY Temple came from behind to win not once but twice and inversely the Wildcats twjee gave away what looked like the winning points Villanova took a 7-0 lead after 8 minutes and 54 seconds of play on a spectacular 47-yard touchdown pass from Al Postus to George Smith. Smith clutched the ball over his shoulder on the 20-yard line after running from defenseman George Sutch and then scampered unhindered to the goal line. Kasky then split the uprights for the extra point.

The Owls knotted the score at 7-7 after 6 minutes and 25 seconds of action in the second quarter on an equally thrilling if not as long 12-yard touchdown pass from Andy Tomasic Clifford Seaver. ZAJKOWSKI CONVERTS Seaver made a beautiful catch of the sizzling toss on the two-yard line and stepped over the final chalk mark. Henry Zajkowski then stepped into the picture to kick the placement that tied the score. The Wildcats again went Into the lead 51 seconds before the close of the third period when Al Postus caught Andy Tomasic's punt on the Owl 40-yard line and with perfect blocking, cutting down potential Cherry and White tacklers as if they were wheat before a reaper to scamper the full distance to the goal line. It was following this touchdown a score that sent Villanova bounding into the lead.

13-7. that Kasky failed to make good on the try for Continued on rage 3, Column 4 Associated Press Sports Editor THE football season's first Ereat wave of upsets swept Fordham. Army and Navy off the undefeated list yesterday, Texas' powerful Longhorns inexplicably held to a 7-7 draw by Baylor, and left Minnesota, Duke, Texas A. end M. and Duquesne as the sole remaining major teams neither beaten nor tied.

Fordham's Rams, victorious in their first five tests and apparent sure shots for a bowl assignment, were victims of as great a form reversal as the game has seen. Matched with Pitt's de-emphasized Panthers who had lost five in row. Fordham never could get organized against the aroused Panthers and dropped a decisive 13-0 decision. There was no treat surprise -in the defeat of both service elevens although most football critics felt Army's finely drilled eleven finally would crack Harvard's defense. It didn't work out that way for Army scored early in the ball frame, but Harvard, its offense clicking: for the first time this season, pushed over three touchdowns and won easily, 20-6.

Navy, tied by Harvard earlier in th season, but otherwise all-victorious, gave Notre Dame a great test before 65.000 in Baltimore but succumbed to Angelo Bertcl-ll accurate passing, 20-13 in a brilliant game. Alabama's Crimson Tide and Mississippi State moved into the van in the hot Southeastern Conference race. Alabama, paced by Jimmy Nelson, handed unpredictable Tulane a 20-14 beating before 60,000, largest crowd that ever saw a regular-season football game in the South. Mississippi State, unbeaten but tied once, took a hard-earned 14-7 victory ever Auburn. Frankie Sinkwich led Georgia to a 19-3 triumph over Florida, while Georgia Tech spilled Kentucky, 20-13.

Of the four major teams it ill unbeaten and tied, Duquesne lias idle in preparation for its meeting today with. St. Mary's of California. Dvkc, almost certain to wind up unbeaten, toyed with Davidson, 56-0, but both Texas A. and M.

and Minnesota were seriously extended. Minnesota found Nebraska a stubborn foe, but finally won, 9-0. The Texas Aggies had to come from behind to spill Southern Methodist, 21-10, with Derace Moser's passing the decisive factor. The Big Ten offered one of the rame's greatest scoring duels at Columbus, where 53,000 saw Ohio State conquer Wisconsin in a wild encounter, 46-34. Northwestern was hard pressed to stop Billy Hillenbrand and Indiana, but finally made the grade, 20-14, but Iowa was an easy victor over Illinois, 21-0.

Purdue played a fNCcreless draw with Michigan State. Detroit nipped Marquette, 7-6. A tremendous crowd of 87,000 saw Stanford continue its march to the Rose Bowl assignment with a neat 13-0 victory over Southern California. Washington E'jbdued California, 13-6; Oregon State easily trounced U. C.

L. 1S-0. and Washington State blenked Idaho, 26-0, in other con-lerence games. Oklahoma, warming up for its pivotal Big Six test with Missouri next Saturday, ran op a 55-0 count on Iowa State, while Missouri was knocking over New York University at New York, 26-0. Kansas State earned a 3-0 intersectional triumph over South Carolina.

In the Southwest Conference, Rice halted Arkansas, 21-12. Cornell. Penn and Dartmouth checkrd in with Ivy League victories in the East. Cornell had no trouble with Yale and won, 21-7, but Penn just did hang on long enough to nip Columbia, 19-16, and Dartmouth had to check Princeton's closing rally to win, 20-13. Penn State checked in with a major upset in spilling 34-19.

Temple and Villanova put on their usual all-out spectacle and the former won, 14-13. Holy Cross came back to form and whipped Brown, 13-0, as West Virginia, Boston College and Georgetown all scored intersectional victories. West Virginia trounced Kansas, 21-0; Boston College ran up a 26-6 count on Wake Forest, and Georgetown blanked Maryland, 26-0. Furman, Virginia Tech and William Mary all earned Southern Conference decisions. Furman won from George Washington, 13-6; V.

P. I. came from behind to trip Sorth Carolina State, 14-13, and William Mary ran vp a 21-0 count on Virginia Military. Virginia stopped Washington Lee, 27-7 as Bill Dudley scored two touchdowns and passed for another. Denver and Brigham Young vn Big Seven decisions, the Xormrr beating Utah State, 14-6, hi Brigham Young toppled TJ'l-omins.

22-7. 1 I I -C -k Cw nullified Columbia's best gain ii Safctv Ds Critized Unsporting, Fans Say; And Exports Call It PoorStrategy PENN'S employment of the intentional safety to stave off Columbia's scoring threats in the closing minutes of yesterday's game came in for varied criticism last night. Many fans, who insist that Ivy League football live up to the highest amateur standards, thought it unsporting and flatly declared they didn't enjoy rooting for a team which took advantage of it opponents through technicalities of the rules. The subterfuge has been employed so often in college football, however, that football writers' reaction to it was not that it was tricky strategy but in thl case, downright poor strategy. Penn was on the 38-yard line at the time with three minutes to go, they pointed out.

By taking the safety, Penn eliminated the risk of a blocked punt, but as result of it they lost 18 yards and other advantages. Tli- ball was jrought to the 20-yard line for a free kick and although Penn's boot could not be blocked, Columbia had a chance to form a dangerous interference for the runback which it could not have rfone if Penn had elected to kick out of bounds on the fourth down instead of the safety, Notre Dame Beats Navy By BILL BONI BALTIMORE. Nov. 8 (A. A work-horse Notre Dame backfield.

getting solid support from an underrated squad of ends, knocked a big but eventually bewildered Navy football team out of the Nations dwindling undefeated ranks today. The Irish, in keeping themselves on the list of the unconquered wita a 20-13 triumph, did so on the fine forward passing of Sophomore Angelo Bertelli; the sweeping, slanting, hard-to-stop drives of Steve Juzwik and Frederick Owen (Dippy) Evans, and the smashing defensive play and often miraculous pass- catching of their ends, principally Bob Dove, John Kovatch and Matt Bolger. 64.795 SEE GAME Notre Dame couldn't have won on any single one of these factors, and had a hard enough time winning with the combination of all three. But by the time a crowd of 64.795 in Municipal Stadium saw afast-hope Navy passing flurry expire at mid- field, Notre Dame had established Itself decidedly as the superior foot ball team. Bertelli, the blonde Italian young ster from West Springfield, Mass this afternoon was every bit the passer he had been cracked up to be.

Unable to help the Irish at all a wees ago when they played a scoreless tie with Army in mud and rain, this time he threw 15 passes and saw 11 of them completed for 216 yards, almost as much as Navy's total yard- Continued on Page 4, Column 5 Scores Waynesburg, Geneva, 0. Juniata, 16; American 3. Lafayette, 16; Rutgers, 0. Muhlenberg, Lehigh, 2. Penn State, 34; Syracuse, 19.

Pittsburgh. 13; Fordham, 0. Slippery Rock, 12; Edinboro. 6. Ursinus.

Washington College, 0. Muskingum, 12; Washington As Jefferson. 7. Grove City. 20; Westminster, 0.

Western Maryland, 20; Dickinson, 0. Indiana Teachers-California Teachers, cancelled. of 19-16. It was the sort of game that makes old grads older and embitters these "bitter rivalries." REFEREE PUNCHED Here, before we go into less exciting details like the touchdowns by Bcrnic Kuczynski, Bob Odell and Joe Kane which won for Penn, or the machine-gun spray of passes that set up both touchdowns by Paul Governali and had Columbia beating a veritable tattco on the Quakers' door, are some of the reasons Franklin Field was no place for nervous cases yesterday: Referee W. D.

Maginnes, the capable official from Lehigh, got punched in the face by an irate Columbia rooter as a menacing bunch of Light Blues broke through a cordon of Columbia players to demand why he called back Stewart Mcllvennan's 53-yard gain mid-way in the final period which rocketed Columbia from a point near its goal into Penn territory. OFFICIAL RULING This play, coming after the star of the day, Governali. who outshone Sid Luckman's memorable performance here in 1938, was trapped while trying to pass, was a short shovel handed to Mcllvcnnan Just as three Penn tacklers were bearing Paul to earth. The officials ruled, however, Gov-ernali's knee had touched the ground somewhere in the vicinity of the scrimmage line and later declined to elaborate on the "fast whistle" that was their story and Columbia was stuck with it. PLENTY OF CONFUSION To the spectators, however, it did not look as if Giovernali left the perpendicular at all, that he had done a spectacular job of thinking in hand ing the ball to his pal, and when the referee put the ball on the n-yara line Instead of back to the five, where he was tackled, it only added to the confusion.

But this confusion was as nothing to that which closed the contest. Clinging grimly to their lead, the Pennsylvanians on fourth down at their own 38-yard line looked at slightly less than three minutes on the big clock and called a Corrigan" play in which Odell trekked backward the whole distance and allowed himself to be thrown behind his goal. Penn then teed up the ball and kicked down field, and Columbia almost got Governali loose in the open field. Halting the Lions' murderous air attack for the first time with Penn's only interception, Kane closed the mad doings shortly afterward by Continued on Page 8, Column BUD HIGGINS STARS It took that sensational little man Bud Higgins to shoot into the game in the second quarter and' begin taking that pigskin places. Midget Bud showed the big fellows how it should be done by skipping ten yards for a first down on the Nebraska one.

Then, heavyweight Bob Sweiger powered it over. But the Huskers smashed through and blocked the try for the extra point and were still very much in the ball game. That was the way things remained right on through the third period, with Minnesota warily trying to pick up a safe margin Continued on Page 5, Column 6 College Grid LOCAL Albright. 27: P. M.

C. 20. Drexel, 12; Susquehanna, 8. Haverford, 20; Hamilton, 0. Penn, 19; Columbia, 16.

Temple, 14; Villanova, 13. Delaware, 47; Swarthmore, 7. STATE Thiel. 26; Allegheny, 0. Fast Stroudsburg, 13; Bloomsburg Teachers.

0. Gettysburg, 12; Bucknell. 0. Cincinnati. 20; Carnegie Tech.

0. Clarion Teachers, 46; Kutztown Teachers. 0. Franklin fe Marshall, Lebanon Valley. 0.

I BALL MISSES GERM ANN'S Forward from Governali is deflected by defensive back and Git ASP RIGHT Oi GOAL LINE heads toward turf as players follow with collision in mid-air. i Pitt in Upset Knocks Fordham Out of Unbeaten Class, 13-0 Jiv BERNARD J. NILLES PITTSBURGH, Nov. 8 (U. The de-emphasized Pitt Panthers scored one of the biggest upsets of the football season today by bumping the Fordham Rams out of the undefeated class, 13 to 0, before 20,000 fans at Pitt Stadium.

The Panthers, who hadn't tasted the sweets of victory in five games this season, pushed the favored New Yorkers all over the gridiron in the final meeting of their seven-game series. Unbeaten Minnesota Downs Nebraska, 9-0 MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 8 (A. Minnesota's Golden Gophers won their fifteenth straight football game today, defeating Nebraska, 9 to 0, in a stubbornly fought contest. Stepping methodically along toward another perfect season, Coach Bernie Bierman's outfit held the upper hand from the start.

They threatened several times but found the going mighty tough when the Cornhuskers' goal was threatened. Harvard Jars Army, 20 fo 6 By RILL KING CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 8 'A. A y's previously-unbeaten Cadets pounded themselves into weariness while charging against Harvard's famed stonewall defense and wounded up as the victims of a shocking 20-6 setback today before 53.000 spectators. Few in the largest crowd the stadium has housed since 1937 were surprised when the Cadets, with an impressive burst of early speed, started a 62-yard scoring drive the third time they gained possession of the ball in the first period.

After the fleet Hank Mazur and Ralph Hill had raced to Harvard's 25-yard line on six plays, the former tossed a beautiful pass that End Jim Kelleher, the first of 15 Cadet subs Continued on Paje 8, Column 6 Mule Clisigriiicd; Cadet Kayoetl CAMBRIDGE. Nov. 8 (A. Army's mule mascot was in no mood for hijinks today. Durinj: the halves Cadet Sa-brino Martinez.

25, of Antonio, attempted to show the mascot off before the 55,000 spectaf ors. Martinet was riding behind the goal posts when ths mule rrared and tossed him to the sod. The Cadet was knocked unconscious, the unruly mule just brayed. Martinez wasn't seriously hurt, however, and afl'r treatment at the D'llon Field House left with the other Cadets for West Point. RAMS CHECKED The Panther line, which has yielded 133 points and 1145 yards to the first five opponents, rose to great 'j heights to hold the potent Fordham running and passing attack to a total of nine first downs and 275 yards.

Pitt rolled It yards for its first touchdown in the opening period after Fordham was unable to advance the ball. Edgar Jones and Contin ied on Page Column 4 Pitt Students Celebrate PITTSBURGH, Nov. 8 (A. It was a long time coming, but when the Pitt Panthers finally won a gridiron victory over lavored ordham today, itt students knew what to do about it. They were on the sidelines dancing in glee as the last few plays were run, and when the final gun barked they literally mobbed their team.

Then fhey wound out of l'ltt Stadium in an impromptu parade ehhind the great Pitt band. The section of Pittsburgh near the ritt Stid'um was given over to the celebrating students. Penn State Sinks Syracuse, 34-19 By FRED BYROD Inquirer Sports Reporter STATE COLLEGE, 8. Syracuse, the football team whose centre faces backward, was pushed in the same direction by an aroused Penn State eleven for most of the 60 minutes of play today on Beaver Field, and suffered a 34 to 19 shellacking in a stunning upheaval of football form before a crowd of 16.000. The score suggests a wide-open game, which it was, but hardly indicates the margin of Penn State's superiority.

The Nittany Lions, keyed to their highest pitch of the season by the tradjtion they never lose on house party week-end they haven't for 11 years far outplayed the favored Orange, previously beaten only by Cornell, until the last 10 minutes. The Nittany Lions received the opening kick-off and punched 65 yards for a touchdown in 10 plays. They led by 27-0 at half time and Continuedn Pace 4. Column 6 Texas, Baylor In 7-7 Deadlock By RAY NEUMANN WACO, Nov. 8 (A.P.) Baylor hurled baffling ground p'ay and aerial magic at the University of Texas Longhorns today to gain 7-7 tie with the Nation's top-ranked football team.

A hard-charging Baylor offense, led by Kitt Kittrell, an amazing 175-pound sub halfback who ran and passed the Longhorns dizzy, and Jack Wilson, key Bear back larger-outfought a Steer eleven which appeared disorganized throughout. PETE LAYDEN MISSED Fast-breaking backs gave Baylor 128 yards on the ground to the Steers' 116, while the Longhorns gained 43 yards overhead to the Bears' 41. Baylor completed 6 of 12 passes to 4 of 14 by the Steers. The Longhorns obviously suffered from the loss of regular fullbnck Pete Layden. Wingman Malcolm Kutner and Tackle Julian Garrett, Continued on Page 5, Column 1 IndianaDefeated By Northwestern EVANSTON, 111., Nov.

8 (A. P.K Northwestern, bounding back after its heart-breaking defeat by Minnesota a week ago, plunged across a fourth period touchdown today to defeat a stubborn Indiana eleven, 20 to 14. before 32,000 chilled spectators. Flurries of snow fell during most of the game. The inspired performance of the Iloosiers was principally due to the 19-year-old sophomore left half, Billy Hillenbrand, Evans ville, boy, who broke away to a 72-yard touchdown gallop after a pass interception early in the first period.

Indiana I'ns. Northwestern I la sa pes end Mntl Trimble Left tackle Baumin Stee'e I-ft sunrd Burke Jurkiewirz Crntre Johnson Rrnialone KiKht guard Zori-h 7.imny Ritrht tackle VmrTl Smith Hirht rnd torlwirk KrllJf 1 HlliMilirn ml linl De out Itmht hHiriuirk KM'fo il White ulllifu Indiana 7 7 tl Noi thwenlern 11 0 't Indiana scoring: Touchdown llillen-hrand. foint alter touchdown-C. White i for Steele i 'J placrmenM. Northwestern scoring: Touchdowns 2.

(Jrahum (for ne cvrrevont. Pom's after touchdown ErdhU di placement. Continued on Page 2, Column 4 i.