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Wi Sports Sports me scons A SACtr finding Newspaper MADISON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1941 19 out Smashing Ba doers First Quarter Bucks Check Late Purdue Threat, 1644 Gophers Held Scoreless Then Roof Falls In on Pitt, 39-0 Kuzmq. Paces. Wolves Over Wildcats, 14-7 Line's Alert Play, Ail-Around Harder Cheer 20,000 By HENRY J. McCORMICK (State Journal Sports Editor) Against a backdrop of gray skies and thinly populated stands the Wisconsin football team staged a flaming exhibition Saturday afternoon putting a strong Iowa team to rout, 23-0. Coach Harry Stuhldreher's Badgers played magnificently, and Iowa never was a threat.

"Wisconsin was as alert in this game as it was careless a week ago, and the Badgers made breaks pay off in scoring dividends. Badgers Play Smartly Only about 20,000 saw this smashing Wisconsin victory over an Iowa team that previously, had played Michigan almost a score. Minnesota shifted its offensive into high gear in the second period after Tackle Eick Wildung recovered a Pitt fumble on his own 35. Smith and Daley drove to the Pitt 39-yard line from where Smith ran wide around right end to the Pitt one. Daley plunged over for the score.

After Pitt punted to the Minnesota 48, Smith passed to Bill Garnaas on the Pitt 30. Herman Frickey ran to the Panther's 33,. and Smith sneaked through to the 13. A penalty for unnecessary roughness put the ball on the Pitt one, from where Daley plunged for the score. Minnesota's sixth touchdown was scored by Garnaas, who intercepted a Pitt pass on his own 35 and ran over the goal untouched.

Jones and Jack Stettler gained frequently through the Minnesota defense, but the Panthers were unable to come up with a sustained drive. Pittsburgh actually 'V i is Harder Carries on That out-downed Minnesota, making 13 to 11 for the Gophers. Minnesota Pittsburgh Heln L. Gervelis Wildung L. T.

Kindelberger Levy L. Mitchell Flick Allhouse Pukema R. Fife Lechner R. Benghouser Ringer R. Hinte Garnaas Q.

West B. Smith L. Jones Frickey R. Connell Daley F. Gebel Score by Periods Minnesota 0 21 12 639 Pittsburgh 0 0 0 00 Scoring: Touchdowns Daley 2.

Higgins 3, Garnaas. Points after touchdowns Garnaas 3. Substitutions: Minnesota Ends, Hir-scher, Anderson. Fitch. Mulready, Eck-berg, Burk, Adams; tackles, Mitchell, Lushine, Sikich, Wilcox, Townley; guards.

Smith, Billman, Paschka, Holmstrom, Sanders, Path, Bicanich, Straiton- centers, Nelson. Nolander, Kulbitski; backs. Plunkett. Bierhaus, Higgins, Lauterbach, Haley, Welch, Thomas. Pittsburgh Ends.

Sotak, Stahl; tcakles, Durishan, Salvuccl; guards, Antonellie, Dillon: centers, Sinclair: backs. Hammond, SteUer, Ut-ton, Stickel, Ross. Officials: Referee, Masker, Northwestern; umpire. Bolster, field judge; Marsters, Dartmouth; head linesman, Simpson, Wisconsin. ml: 3i a time when Iowa looked danger-ous.

Harder Shows 'Em How This was a tremendously im-j pressive Wisconsin team, and ii probably is wrong to single out any one player above the others. However, any history of this game will have to deal set considerable length on the deeds of a Wisconsin sophomore, Marlin "Pat" Harder. Harder is a fullback who bids fair to eclipse the deeds of an illustrous string of predecessors such as Eddie Jankowski, Howard Weiss, and George Paskvan. Extravagant praise? Not in this case. Harder scored two of Wiscon- sin's three touchdowns, bototed two points after touchdown in three attempts, and kicked a field goal from the 37-yard line.

Harder carried the ball 16 times from scrimmage, and he rolled tip 84 yards' for anaverage of 5.3 yards per try. Harder was the outstanding Wisconsin performer, but that still leaves plenty of glory of boys like Tommy Farris, "Bud" Seelinger, Hadley Hoskins, Bob Ray, "Pat" Lyons, Dave Schreiner, 'l BIO TEN STANDINGS W. L. T. Pet.

T.P. OP. Michigan 2 0 0 1.000 20 7 Minnesota ..1 0 1.000 34 Ohio State 1.0 0 1.000 16 Wisconsin 1 1 0 .500 37 41 Northwestern I I 0 .800 48 28 Iowa 0 2 0 .000 0 2 I Illinois 0 1 0 .000 6 34 Indiana 0 0 0 .000 0 0 ,1 Purdue 0 1 0 .000 14 18 i MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (U.R) After one scoreless period, Minnesota's Gophers broke loose with all the power in their vaunted running attack Saturday and smothered a helpless Pittsburgh eleven, 39 to 0. A crowd 6f 30,000 saw Bruce Smith and Bill Daley and Sophomore Bud Higgins pace the rout of the out-classed Pitt team for Minnesota's 12th consecutive victory.

Smith's running through a broken field and Daley's plunging gave Minnesota its first two touchdowns, and then Higgins, who weighs only 150 pounds, took over. He turned in a touchdown run of 48 yards in the second period and came back in the third with dashes of 70 and 50 yards before he scored from the two-yard line. Late in the final period, he returned to run 41 yards to the Pitt 13, setting up' his chance to go over from the five-yard line for Minnesota's last Indiana Drubs Nebraska LINCOLN, Neb. (U.R) Young Billy Hillenbrand, an elusive, prodigious sophomore, lifted re juvenated Indiana from the depths of three early-season fail ures Saturday as the inspired Hoosiers toppled overrated Ne braska from the eminence of the undefeated, 21-13, before a stunned homecoming throng of Hillenbrand was the master magician whose touch down plunge and two perfect passes cracked Nebraska's 5-year dominance and sent the proud Corn-huskers staggering to defeat in Memorial stadium for the first time in three years. In the face of Hillenbrand's all-around performance and the smashing play of a reputedly-weak Indiana line, Nebraska was a frustrated giant.

The Corn-huskers struck suddenly in the first period, but Hellenbrand and company bounced back to grab a 7-6 halftime lead. Indiana Gets Hot Then in the third period the same Hillenbrand pitched two touchdown strikes for the clinching touchdowns. Nebraska's only rebuttal was a desperate aerial sortie that sliced Indiana's margin to one touchdown midway the fourth period. Quarterback Lou Saban's interception of a wild Nebraska pass was the signal for Indiana's revival. Only two minutes remained in the second period when the Hoosiers started to roll from Nebraska's 46.

Hillenbrand, Fullback Earl Doloway and Halfback Charley Jacoby collaborated to reel off three first downs on passes and end sweeps. On the third plunge inside Nebraska's two, Hillenbrand scored and injured Gene White, Indiana captain, came off the bench to boot the first of his three conversions. Within four minutes of the third period the Hoosiers were in command. From the Nebraska 45 Hillenbrand rifled a long aerial to Jacoby on the five, Elud-i Marvin Athey, Nebraska quarterback, Jacoby stepped across the goal. Another Pass Another Score Nebraska just had time to return the kickoff and punt before the Hoosiers struck again.

This time Indiana marched 41 yards, with Hillenbrand shedding tack-lers like puff balls. The touchdown came on a 10-yard from Hillenbrand to end Ken Smith, who leaped high in the end zone. The first Nebraska touchdown came with only 30 seconds remaining in the first period. Halfback Allen Zikmund shook loose on a reverse for 37 yards, picking his way through the middle of the Indiana line to score standing. The score was a fair comparison of the teams as the game was played.

Indiana rolled up 15 first downs to Nebraska's four and outgained the Huskers by rushing, 228 yards to 175. The net gain by rushing and passing favored Indiana, 297 to 225. The lineups: Nebraska Indiana Preston L. Nash Schleich L. Trimble Van Goetz L.

G. Steele Meier Moeller Abel Braealone Ztmny Smith Saban Hillenbrand Jacoby Herndon Kathol Athey Bradley T. K. B. Zikmund H.

Francis. F. White score by Periods Nebraska 6 0 0 713 Indiana 0 .7 14 021 Scoring: Touchdowns Zikmund, Hillenbrand, Jacoby, Smith. Blue. Points after touchdowns E.

White 3, Schleich. Substitutions: Nebraska Thompson. Hazen. Ludwick: tackles. Byler.

Martlg. Bordy; guards, Duda, Deviney: center. Kelly: backs, Metn- eny. Debus, Simmons, Blue. Indiana Ends, Hasapes, Ricketts: tackles.

Bell. Iacino; guards, E. White. Deal; center, Tavener: backs, Herbert, Brown, Harrell. Swihart, Ronzone, COLUMBUS, Ohio (U.R) Ohio State's unbeaten football team barely withstood a savage last quarter rally by Purdue Saturday, but defeated the Boilermakers, 16 to 14, by the Margin of a safety that came on a blocked punt.

Ohio State scored all its points in the first half. In the second half, Purdue gave the 66,074 rain-splattered fans a drama of power with line-busting Fullback John Petty in the leading role. It was the first Western Conference victory for Coach Paul Brown, last year a high school coach. Buck Pass Scores The all-important safety was scored in the first quarter when lanky Jim Daniell knifed through the Purdue line to block Bob Hajzyk's punt on the Purdue 12. The ball rolled over the end zone where Capt.

Jack Stephenson of Ohio State fell on it. On the kickoff after the safety Ohio State took the ball on Purdue's 48 and drove to the four-yard line. Purdue held, but early in the second period Jack Graf smashed Ohio State to the one-yard line and plunged for a touchdown. The Buckeyes struck swiftly again after Dick Fisher recovered fumble on the Purdue 35. He passed to Charley Anderson, Negro end, on the first play and Anderson caught the ball on the 15 and ran for a touchdown.

Held to three plays from scrim mage in the first half, Purdue began to roll near the end of the third quarter after a beautiful 80-yard touchdown run by Fisher had been nullified by a clipping penalty against Ohio State. Petty Petty Petty Graf punted to Ken Smock of Purdue, who ran from midfield to the 15. Petty smashed to the four for a first down and three plays later ran his left end for a touchdown. With only a few minutes to go, Smock heaved a pass to Forrest Sprowl for a 47-yard gain to the Ohio 16. Three plays later.

Petty went over from the two-yard line with only 56 seconds to play. Leon Schoenbaum and Smock made good the extra points. Ohio State had a slight edge in statistics, making 10 first downs to Purdue's 7 and 135 yards by rushing to 60. Purdue completed five passes for 91 yards and Ohio State made 48 yards on three. The lineup: Ohio State Purdue Anderson L.

King Daniell L. Rossi Howard L. (C.) Miller ftosen Johnson Houston R. G. Melton Stephenson (C.) R.

French Shaw R. Hajzyk Hallabrin Q. Combs Fisher L. Smock Kinkade R. Meakin Graf F.

Snyder Score by Periods Ohio State 2 14 0 018 Purdue 0 0 0 14 14 Scoring: Touchdowns Graf. Anderson, Petty 2. Points after touchdowns Schoenbaum 2. Smock 2. Safety Scored by Ohio State, Daniell.

Substitutions: Ohio State Ends, Fox; Churl, Dixon, McCaf-ferty; guards, Bruckner; centers, Pla-cas; backs. Burgett, Horvath, Lynn, Schoenbaum. Purdue Ends, Rush, Sprowl; tackles. Warren, Timperman: guards, Erlich, Powers: backs, Smierke, Hersey, Chester. Petty.

Officials Referee, Frank Lane, Detroit; unia', Anthony Haines, Yale; field judge, R. H. Rupp, Lebanon Valley: linesman. Herb Steger, Michigan. Stanford Takes It Easy to Win, 42-26 PALO ALTO, Calif.

(U.R) Stanford whipped the University of San Francisco Saturday 42-26 the highest scoring major game played on the Pacific coast this year. Coach Clark Shaughnessy of Stanford used everybody but the water boy and crippled Pete Kmetovic in downing the game but weak San Franciscans in the free-scoring battle. The crowd of 16,000 looked for a runaway as the Stanford varsity, powered by Frankie Albert, rolled to two first period touchdowns and notched two more early in the second. But Shaughnessy began wholesale substitutions at this point. Passing during the first auarter but its attack began to function during the second.

Three passes and a run by Richardson gave the Hill-toppers their first score. A few minutes plater Goodyear broke loose orchis touchdown run. Kansas scored on a 49-yard pass from Harlan Altman to Dehzel Gibbens "the third period. Marquette made three, touchdowns in the second half. One was effected by a tricky lateral-forward pass from Doug Renzel to Bob MeCahill to John Harrington.

1 Three yards never have seemed a great hurdle to Wisconsin fullbacks, and Marlin "Pat" Harder, only a sophomore, carries on the tradition in this photo' to give the Badgers their first touchdown against Iowa Saturday and to boost the score to 9-0 in the opening period. Wisconsin went on to win, 23 to 0. Harder (34) is seen on top of the goal-line pileup, Dave Schreiner (80) at his side. Jim Youel (59), Iowa back, reached Harder a bit too late. By STEVE SXIDER EVANSTOX, Michigan's vaunted defense, bruised but unyielding at critical moments, held off ever-threatening Northwestern Saturday until Sophomore Tommy Kuzma struck twice with touchdown passes to give Michigan its second straight Western Conference football victory, 14 to 7.

Michigan scored first and it scored last, but in between a parade of Northwestern backs poured through, over and around the Wolverines in five tremendous charges. With only five seconds to play. Northwestern pierced to the 4-yard line and in one last surge Michigan's line hurled the ball carriers back to the 20. Midway through the first period, Michigan stunned the homecoming crowd of 47,000 persons by marching straight down field for 73 yards and a touchdown. Northwestern bounced back with a touchdown in the second period and threatened continually through the third, but in the fourth came Kuzma's second scoring pass.

No amount of heroics by Northwestem's Bill De Correvont and Don Clawson could wipe out that margin. Kuzma Starts Out Michigan supposedly had little cffense. Northwestem's line was matter of concern, but Saturday each was almost perfect. In the end, the only difference- was Kuzma "who had been hailed as Tomrry Harmon the second and left the field as Kuzma the first. Gams of 26 and eight yards by liob Westfall and a 13-yard Ft'rsnt by Tippy Lockard aided Michigan's first touchdown drive.

N. W. Mich, First Down 17 9 Net Yard Rushing 184 146 Net Yard raising 197 73 forward Attrmpted 23 7 rir4 Completed 12 4 lormnli Intrrrrptrd by 1 av Oainrd Interception 11 13 Vuntk. v. (from tcrim.) 26 41 bail Last on Fumbles 141 18 Yards Penalized 30 15 With second down on Northwestem's 14, Westfall handed the ball to George Ceithaml who sent a shovel pass to Kuzma.

The play lost three yards, but remember it. Kuzma passed seven yards to Harhn Fraumann and on fourth down, Michigan started what appeared to be the same play as on second down, Westfall to Ceithaml to Kuzma. Instead of running, however, Kuzma flipped it to Fraumarm. who stood in the end zone. Bill Melzo placekicked.

Graham Goes to Work Late in the second period, Sophomore Otto Graham set up a Northwestern touchdown by out of bounds on Michigan's three. Kuzma's return punt carried out to his own 39 and the Wildcats went to work. Graham did most of the work on this one, lugging the ball 12 yards, then passing 12 to Bob Motl for a first down on the seven. It took four downs to get the ball over, but Graham did it, hurtling the line. Dick Erdlitz placekicked the point.

In the! third period, Michigan held for downs on its own eight, held on its ,27 and ended another drive when Kuzma recovered Graham's fumble on the 25. After recovering a Northwestern fumble on its 19 at the start of the last period Michigan moved 13 yards, then Kuzma punted out cf bounds on Northwestem's four. Michigan Holds Them Kuzma brought back De Cor-revont's return kick two yards to Northwestem's 47 and on the first play passed to Joe Rogers who caught the ball on the 32 and ran into the end zone unmolested. Melzow again kicked the point. An exchange of punts followed the kickoff and Northwestern hammered back again, covering most of the 83 yards on a 24-yard kickoff return by De Correvont and De Correvont's 52-yard pass to BilTOhland for a first down on the 12.

After four downs, the Wildcats were back on the 20 and Michigan had the ball as the game ended. The lineups: Northwestern Michigan Colberg L. Frauman Baurr.an L. Wistert Eurke L. Kolesar Johnson IngallS Kiet'T R.

Pregulman Sarrarzia R. T. Kelto Rogers Ceithaml Kuzma Lockard W.iu R. Krufer Q. De Correvont If Kepford R.

Benson F. Bi. Westfall Score by Periods Northwestern ft 7 0 0 7 Michigan L. 7 0 0 714 Scoring: Touchdowns. Frauman.

Graham. Rogers. Points after touchdowns Melzow ,2. Erdlitz. Substitutions: Northwestern Ends.

Easse. Motf, Ohland; tackles, Karlstad. Vincent; guards, Zorich, Kapter, Pick: centers. MurrriTr- backs, Erdlitz, Chambers, Graham; fullback. Clawson.

Michigan Tackles, Flora; guards, Melzow. Frarks: centers. Kennedy; backs, Kelson. Vbite, Robinson, Boor. Officials: Referee.

W. A. Blake. Columbia. umpire.

Ernie Vick, Michi-tan: field Judge. Roily Baraum. Wis consin, linesman, Lloyd, Larson, Wis- BOB WESTFALL aids IV oloe cause Two Illini Stop Drake, 40-0 CHAMPAIGN, 111. (U.R) Illinois scored 40 points in 17 minutes Saturday to defeat Drake university 40-0, for its second victory of the season. The Illini made 20 points in the first 10 minutes, and 20 in the last seven.

The rest of the way, Drake proved an equal match. Don Griffin, sophomore left halfback, gave 13,000 spectators a spectacular start by running 29 yards to a touchdown on Illinois' first scrimmage. With the' game six minutes old, he scored again from 28 yards out and was replaced by Bob Falkenstein, who immediately drove to Illinois third touchdown. Joe Saggione, Maurice White, and Herman Harvey found the Illinois line vulnerable at the start of the third period, as they reeled off four successive first downs on a steady, 49-yard march to the Illinois nine. Drake tried hard for a score, but White's pass to Rogers Burton in the end zone was illegal and Illinois took the ball.

Dick Umilty, Lincoln, 111., sophomore, ploughed his way to two touchdowns in the closing minutes and, on the last play of the game, Darryl Robb passed to Paul MUo-sevich for the final touchdown. The lineups: Illinois Drake Grierson I.L. Reeves Engelo L. T. Neeson Wilson L.

Czech Cheeley Arneson Pawlowski R. Adams Genis R. St. Clair McCarthy R. Burton Good Q.

Anderson Griffin L. White Smith R. H. Cobb Correll F. Saggione Score by Periods niir.ois 20 0 0 2040 Drake 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring: Touchdowns Griffin, Falkenstein, Tumilty 2, Milosevich.

Points after touchdowns McCarthy 3, Wilson. Substitutions: Illinois Ends, Milosevich, Owens, Tregoning: tackles. Wal-lin. Agase: guards, McCullough, N. Johnson.

McMasters, Niedzelski; center. Cherry; quarterbacks, Worban, Robb: halfbacks, Falkenstein. Butko-vich, Tumilty. Gould; fullbacks, Sucic, Piggott. Drake Ends, Kuhlman; tackles, Cuhingberry, Michner; guard.

D. Dillon; quarterbacks, Frank, Pearson: halfbacks. Vincent, Harvey, Stille, C. Johnson; fullback, Dickson. Officials: Ronald Gibbs, St.

Thomas: umpire, William Knight, Dartmouth; field judge, Meyer Morton, Michigan; linesman, Al Nelson, St. Viator. Rams Easily Tip Mountaineers, 27-0 NEW YORK (U.R) Fordham's hard-hitting Rams smashed out a 27-0 victory over a game but outclassed West Virginia eleven Saturday before a small crowd of 12,500 at the Polo Grounds. Scoring three touchdowns in the first half on marches of 60, 71 and 75 yards, the unbeaten Rams ran up a big lead and then added another score in the final half which was played in a drizzling rain. Marquette's a in Navy Flashes Its Guns Late to Tip Unbeaten Cornell, 14-0 dead even game in losing by a 6-0 score.

Wisconsin started rolling in the first seconds of play, and it collected all 23 points in the first half. The Badgers played smart, conservative football in the second half, and there never was Tradition i 1 5 for a gain of 21 yads. Notre Dame scored its first touchdown in the opening period, sending Steve Juzwik, senior halfback from Chicago, over the Tartan goal from six yards out. He also converted. In the second period the Irish reached the one-yard line before losing the ball on downs.

Fritz went back to punt out of danger, but decided to run with the ball and big Bob Dove, smashed him down behind the line for a safety. In the third period Tech broke up an Irish advance on its four-yard line when Juzwik fumbled on fourth down for a loss of 12 yards. The Irish second team put over the final touchdown early in the fourth period. Notre Dame's third team then muffed two more scoring opportunities. The lineups: Carnegie Tech Notre Dame Ramsay L.

Dove D. Burns L. Brutz Boyd L. Maddock Holets Ziemba Alexander R. Crimmins Zelenka R.

Lillis Matonis R. Murphy Sutch Q. Wright Fritz L. Bertelli Richardson R. Juzwik Karlitsky F.

Evan Score by Periods Carnegie Tech 0 0 0 0 0 Notre Dame ..7 716 Scoring: Touchdowns' C. Mille. Points after touchdowns Juzwik, Warner. Safety Fritz of Car-neeie Tech. Substitutions: Carnegie Tech Ends, Carrey; tackles, Moorman, Berkowltz; guards, Purcell, Desimone, Minkel, Preskln- center, Verner; backs, Johnson, Byers.

Pash, Burns. Philipchuk. Notre Dame Ends. Bolger, OBrien, Kovatch, Barry; tackles, L. Sullivan, Nef Rymkus, Bereolos; guards, Mc-Bride, Filley, Riordan, Laiber; centers.

Brock; backs, Hargrave, Ashbaugh, Warner. Hogan, Early. MUler, C. Miller. McNeill.

Officials: Referee, A. D. Horgan, Boston; umpire, A. L. Slack, Pittsburgh; field Judge.

A. Palmer, Colby; linesman, P. S. Templeton, Pitt. vf S7 Carnegie Tech Happy! Irish Margin, 16-0 RESULTS SATURDAY WISCONSIN 23, 0.

Michigan 14. Northwestern 7. Ohio State 16. Purdue 14. Illinois 40, Drake 0.

Minnesota 39, Pittsburgh 0. Indiana 21. Nebraska 13. GAMES SATURDAY Indiana at WISCONSIN. Minnesota at Michigan.

Iowa at Pur duo. Illinois at Notre Dame. Northwestern at Ohio State. Paul Hirsbrunner, Dick Loepfe, George Makris, Pat Boyle, Dick Thornally, Bob -Hanzlik, Lloyd Wasserbach, Bob Baumann, and all the rest who saw action against Iowa. Boy, That Line! Those people who have been saying such harsh things about Wisconsin's line play had better eat those words after Saturday's exhibition.

Pitted against an Iowa line that lost no face in its meeting with Michigan's formidable forward wall, Wisconsin's line proved itself immeasurably superior. Schreiner came through with' the kind of end play that made him one of the most highly regarded wings in the Western Conference a year ago as a sophomore, and Lyons continued hi3 fine play at the other end. Loepfe played the kind of a smashing game at tackle that the Wisconsin coaches knew he was capable Cf producing, and big, black-haired Hirsbrunner at the other tackle was destruction on the Baumann and Wasserbach con tributed some more high grade tackle play. The Wisconsin line down the middle also proved that its heralded weakness was fast disappearing. Makris and Boyle played magnificiently at the guards, and their substitutes did a fine job, too.

Thornally continued his rapid improvement at center. The thing that stood out sharply in Wisconsin's victory was the amazing poise that the players displayed. This is a young Wisconsin team, and it showed a distinct lack of poise in losing to Marquette and to Northwestern. Quarterback Farris ran the team with a steady hand, and his selection of plays was above reproach. He refused to take needless gambles in the second half when the Badgers had plenty of margin.

"The boys did a great job," said Coach Stuhldreher in the Wisconsin dressing room after the game. "Anybody you care to name was a star today. "Whew, but didn't they so after that game!" he added, shaking his head. "You have to give them credit for keeping their heads up and not getting discouraged after those first two defeats. It was a great game to win the way these boys won it.

Dr. Eddie Anderson, Iowa's coach, was disappointed. He gave Wisconsin credit for playing a great game, but he also thought his team was playing below form. "We never recovered after that mistake we made on the opening By JACK GUENTIIER BALTIMORE, Md. (U.R) The Navy's vaunted football forces, shackled behind their own 40-yard stripe throughout the first half, exploded a 'startling burst of power in the third period Saturday then capitalized on an intercepted pass in the fourth for a 14-0 conquest of undefeated Cor nell.

A rain-sprinkled crowd of 45,000 saw the Middies," outfought and outsmarted for the first 30 minutes, retain their position in the thinning ranks of the undefeated and untied by slowly hammering the faster but lighter Big Red eleven into submission with two lightning thrusts in the closing minutes of the last two quarters. Held to a single first down in the opening half, the Middies didn't swing into a major action until the 41st minute. After throwing back Cornell's only serious march a '39-yard advance to the five the Sailors bogged down listlessly. Then, in a flash, they struck. Busik, his piston legs flashing merrily, took charge with some seven minutes left in the third period.

First he bit off 30 yards before Navy lost the ball, then he began a second drive on the Cornell 42. In just seven plays the Middies were off to a lead that never was headed. Busik ran to the 31, scampered 10 yards around left end and two plays later completely crossed tip the usually alert Cornell secondary by handing a reverse to Boothe, who rambled 15 yards to the score without the help of a single block er. i30D Leonard converted. A wild fourth period was feat ured by five intercepted passes and Navy turned the fifth into a touchdown.

Cornell, putting up an excep tional defense for a 3-1 underdog, had its only scoring chance in the first period. The Big Red had the advantage in first downs, nine to seven, and in passing, with 141 yards to 16, but missed fire on close aerials several times and bowed before the Navy ground attack, 163 to 64 yards. PITTSBURGH (U.R) A superior Notre Dame eleven ground out a 16-0 victory Saturday over a valiant band of Carnegie Tech athletes before 27,719 fans in rain-drenched Pitt stadium. The Tartans, who play for the fun they get out of the game and not for any material gain, played a defensive game throughout in the hope of holding down the score. Tech carried out its main purpose, but the Irish, although stopped four times by the light Tech forwards, sent their backs over for two touchdowns.

Tech gave them another two points on a safety when John Fritz, 145-pound sophomore halfback from Blas-dell, N. tried to run the ball out from behind his goal line instead of kicking. The Tartans had ther hands full all afternoon as the Notre Dame backs piled up 20 first downs, 16 of them on running plays. Tech made only one first down but finished with a record of minus 19 yards on rushing. They connected on one pass out of nine attempted BILL BUSICK Naoy's hero Tuy-mreyE- 1 1 fvwyv3 Wallops Kansas, 33-7 MILWAUKEE U.R) The brilliant forward passing of two halfbacks, Jimmy Richard son and Johnny Goodyear, 'carried Marquette university to a 33 to 7 victory over the University of Kansas before 13,000 spectators here Saturday night.

Richardson completed every one of the five passes he threw. Goodyear sprinted 75 yards to a touchdown after intercepting a pass the longest run of the game. Marquette was held ia check -j Doloway, Preger..

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