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FINANCE i SPORTS 106th Year. No. 174 Free Press Want Ads Bring Best Results Sunday, October 25, 1936 Minnesota ....33 Purdue 0 Northwestern .13 Illinois 2 Ohio 7 Indiana 0 Dartmouth .26 Harvard 7 Tennessee ....15 Duke 13 Princeton 7 Navy 0 Fordham 7 St. Mary's 6 Pitt 26 Notre Dame. 0 Earns First Victory by Beating Columbia, 1 3 to 0 a of Marquette Drops State, 13-7 -U.

ofD. Routs Jaspers, 20-0 Michigan Shows Punch a i Ruivid's Two Passes Just Like 0Id Times at Ann Arbor -Smithers Cracks Line for 20 Yards as Sweet, Ritchie Score Hit Mark for Scores PlneeVs Toss Enables Spartans to Come from behind in i nira quarter By Charles P. Ward Mil WAl'KEE, Oct. 24 Michigan State loft the ranks nf the teams today as it bowed to a fighting Marquette eleven -H' I on nnn Short Lion Punt Leads to Opening Touchdown; Intercepted Pass Brings Second One By Tod Rockwell ANN ARBOR, Oct. 2t It waa like old times at the stadium here this afternoon.

The Michigan team won a football game the fust one this season. Jt trounced Columbia, 11 to 0. with a ne kind of an offnse. Ther uas punch in every period. There had to be, for Lou Little Lions had a passing attack that aluays was dangerous and some runners who could step.

The greater part of a crowd of 20.000 had a picnic watching Cedric. Sweet parade up through the renter of the Columbia line and sat fascinated as a blond youngster from Grand Rapids, Sophomore Wally Hook, ran and ran himself right into the very center of the Wolverine offensive stage. Sweet put Michigan out in front halfway through the second period with an 11-yard drive through the Lion line and a touchdown. Johnny Smithers added the extra point. Nearing the close of the game, as the Lions gamely fought to even the count, Stark Ritchie homecoming crown nwir.

-ri score was 13 to 7, the Hilltoppers coming from behind late tne fourth quarter to score a touchdown and extra point after the tartans had taken a 7-6 lead in the third. The Hilltoppers won, but to do so they had to dress up a long-arc rifle in a football uniform and pass it off as a player. The Marquette officials insisted that the cannon really was Ray (Buzz) Sirvid, the Marquette captain. Hut no mere human could be as good today as the lad they culled Buivid, so he must have been a gun, or some kind of a walk- ing, talking catapult that can 1 Ram Gridders iniercepiea a pass inrown ny t'olumrua a Joe Vollmer. Stark Zigzagged 32 yards through a broken field and, aided greatly by old- iPitt Runs Over throw a football 50 yards with scarcely any effort.

The Spartans could have won had it not been for this Buivid and a fellow conspirator named Art Guepe, the latter being a member of the deadly pair which Marquette football followers lovingly refer to as the touchdown twins. State's Enemy No. 1 Brother Al, the other member of the duo, got into the game, lung tne second marker without having a Lion touch him. Conquer Gaels fordham Holds Slim 7-to-6 Margin The victory, the first for the Wolverines since they won from i Penn a year ago, preserved a ten- Rambler Team year string of triumphs over in-1 tersectional foes that began after! Navy defeated Michigan in 1P'J6 iGoldberg IS Spark Ol enough to give Coach Charley NEW YORK, Oct. 24 (ATM- Bnchman.

Snarl an boss, some wor- Pwpite self-imposed handicap of risome moments, but the two arch IS yards in penalties, rordhams 4, int i MARCH tJAIX TO START VICTORY WOLVERINE HALFBACK RA('IN(i THKOI CiH tOLl MBIA FOR I.ON(i p.i'AP'ful football team turned back Miry' to pIs. 7-6, today in the rnin Grounds on the execution of a point after touchdown by Quar-terbswk Andy I'alau. Fifty thousand attended game. Th" Cnlifoi nians from the Morsel Valley, known as the Gallnp-vi Cads, had the gallop taken out foes were Buivid and Art Guepe, and most especially Buivid. The Spartans met up with Mr.

Buivid last season when he passed his teammates to a 1.1-7 victory over them in the homecoming game at Fast Lansing. So they knew all about him and were prepared to stop his passing. But. trying to stop Buivid is like trying to stop an air raid with a It was a triumph for the Wolverine line. Yes, the Michigan line took charge of the Lions.

The Wolverine forwards overcame a devastating series of tough breaks In the first period, including two of the worst kind of fumbles. But the Michigan men didn't wilt. Instead Ihey charged the harder. It won the ball game. rmanelli, Rlnaldl Stand Out Capt.

Matt Patiinrlll turned in a first rlass performance at left end. Joe Ruialdi never appeared better at center. Those two Mich- Gophers Rout 26-0 Victory By Grantland Rice PITTSBURGII. Oct. 24-Pittsburgh's powerful Panthers had too many claws and too many for Notre Dame today.

More than 70.000 spectators saw the Panthers' fast, hard-driving attack run roughshod over and around the badly shattered Irish to the noisy tune' of 26 to 0. It was one of the worst beatings Notre Dame ever took where the Bpnd simoon sank to a Purdue Eleven Buckeye Pass Beats Indiana Dye's Toss Decides 7-0 Contest them the first time they col with the Hams' rugged for-'sp pistol. You can put a lot of Titans Trample Manhattan as Farkas Scores 3 Times Piper's Punting Keeps Jaspers Back on Heels While Attack Is Constant Threat By Lewis H. Walter MM try into the effort but very often the results will be negligible. The Marquette captain is a big, Victors Stage Parade in Second Half lean men were leaders today.

Bren 'nd and their widely attack with Les Gimix pitching was ineffective Fordham's alert secondary. Fordham incurred seven penal-tir-s nf ir vards. each for a total nan, Marzonie. Gather at the i zephyr against a much better guards; Luhv and Don Siegel at i squad. The main spearhead in this the tackles and tall Dannv Smlck Panther attack was Marshall Gold- MINNEAPOLIS, 24 (A.

Lblo, COLUMBUS, Oct. 24 fA nil' I it 6 of l5 yards for back in motion Minnesota's mighty fortress tne otner tiank paced me jvueni-1 of fnc.hall tnd, it. gan attack. These men and the i w' celebrate his eighteenth birth- Ohio State turned on the power today but was forced to rest of the Michigan linemen were day tomorrow. Young Goldberg boominz defiance to the srridlron take to the air to defeat a stub born Indiana team 7 to 0.

ouisianuing in a inunipn wim. win world, rugged hard-going fellow who can play 60 minutes every week, run as well as the next good back and pass as few can pass. Fifty yards is nothing to him and he heaved passes for both of the Hilltoppers' touchdowns today. A 40-Yard Shot One of his heaves went through the air for 40 yards before settling snugly Into the arms of the waiting Art Guepe who galloped five more yards for the score. The second traveled .10 yards before it ran inning iMOtre mine like an antelope racing through a field of wheat T-fe U'na a nmnlnff trntr go a long way toward quieting the The defent dragged the Hoosiers uneasiness in the Michigan coach' after the shift.

Two of them came in riuyi'ision early in the first pe-lind. setting Fordham back on her one-yard line. Talau, standing deep in the end zone, punted to Hujh Sill, who ran the ball back 20 yards to the 18. Fiwl Drops Forward Onix lost a yard trying to crack Fwasam' left tackle and then BROOKLYN, N. Oct.

24 With rugged halfback Andy Farkas hotfooting his way across the goal line for the. three touchdowns of the game, University of Detroit's football team humbled the huge young men of Manhattan College on Ebbets Field this afternoon, 20 to 0, before 12,000 persons. The Titans, coached by Charles E. Dorais, were given little more than an even chance to tumble the behemoth who had bowed only to unbeaten Holy Cross. But Detroit really cracked down to gain a decisive victory.

The Green was kept in its own backyard most of the afternoon with splendid defensive play and kicking by Jimmy Piper, little halfback from Chicago and the Detroit attack did the rest. Detroit tire the Manhattan line and passed the Manhattan team heartsick to gain the third victory of the season. ing ranks. wnirieu, succu ana catapulted Yes, Coach Kipke can thank his! nis way alnnK the turf for the ma-linemen today. They charged and; of Pittsburgh's first downs, battled throughout a ball game Goldberg- had an able accomplice against a good team.

Thev put Bob Laru. another speedy Pantile pass back in the Michigan Barki ht It was the West down alongside the Bucks in the Western Conference race. The Ohloans, defending co-champions with Minnesota, saw their chances to repeat go glimmering a week ago when defeated by Northwestern. Indiana had beaten Michigan. Quarterback William "Tippy" Purdue's team of destiny, like 20 other attackers before it, at-temped to force Minnesota's surrender today, but in the end it was vanquished, 33 to 0, before 50,000 spectators.

The gallant crew of Boilermakers, bidding for a Big Ten championship, after playing brilliantly for 30 minutes, collapsed in the final half and were scattered to all corners of the sun-drenched Memorial Stadium. Wenken In Second Half Statistics of Game tern. They paved the way for the ih.jhmu nmsi brilliant Hook and his sparkling M.r. M. Stall.

Farkas gave Detroit the lead Dve's 11-yard flip to Captain Merle early in the second quarter when Mrf rintvn. l-nruti'il HhH Hlti-ni)H'(l Ill I'M 4 in the second period ac a pass to Gianonni, stand-h; rinse to the goal line and in the r'c'ir, hut the Gael end failed to i on to the hall. Sill then picked up yards through center. With the crowd yelling "block counted for the only touchdown he rirP-l and whirled seven yards Saturdayys Football Scores of the contest. Wend't placckicked i through the big Manhattan line Crmiltril P'l1.

f.MIMMrlpl) uriU liv rirtiril iitikkf. II; I'MIII Htrnicr frimi fcrrini nKi" the extra point. III i.ii'nn Luc i.iii nini iiiun.A a 60-yard march. John Shada, hi uit; tuiu sorrow 10 lrisn hope. It was a rough, hard-smacking battle from start to finish where the field nt times was strewn with fallen bodies and where replacements were kept busy rushing in and out, until sunsets fini-h.

Through the fust period Elmer Layileii'a green young men held off the Panther rush, but thu Quarterback Ixiu Ferry, I fnmhi rrrmi i HI. runs. They knocked down Lions as Ritchie scored. They uprooted! a fighting Columbia band to open: up a parade ground for Sweet, Stanton. Hook, Smithers, Cooper, and others.

Kinaldi and Patamd'i s-t the stage fur Sverfs oiichi iv. with old-time Michigan football. They went, down the field, as they did all through the game, under a punt, ami tossed Columbia's great triple-j MI( IIIC AN holding the hall on the I. hooted it. beautifully Buckeyes Show Power Ohio showed its power by 12 of its 11 first downs by Purdue gave out in Ihe second half before a suite of Minnesota' little guard from Grand Rapids, entered the game and kicked the extra point and it was Detroit's reached the arms of Herb Ander ie bar and through the up son, who was standing in the end a field goal and three zone wait ing for the play that was rushing.

Indiana was never deep, baU game (hen on. A few plavs after the kick-; to give victory to Ma nine! to. in "Ml" me passes Off. Mi ids again had possession With Buivid in the line-up for i Statistics of the Game back Filchock were a constant e' U-e ball in fordham territory. the entire game, the air was filled rot threat back.

Sid Luckman, on the Lion seven-yard line. 1 1 an! irainad frum i rtminae ti I The, Michigan line eloped in tniioirmni hurry Hubert Schulze's punt. The ball struck the ground 30 yards "t'' out. from goal and bounded back to the 1R so Michigan was touch-! -down-bound. Hook slashed off i'llliimlio Shine Farkas marie the next two markers for the Titans in the final period, which saw a new Titan star arise in the person nf Edward Palumbo, sophomore halfback from Cleveland Heights, O.

Palumbo passed to Farkas for both of the Detroit touchdowns in the last quarter. The Cleveland boy entered the game late in the fourth period to replace Piper, whose passing arm had been severely wrenched. It was feared that the removal of Piper might seriously injure Detroit's chances to hold the advantage for his great hi' their running and passing at-tn- was stopped cold on the 34. V.Vhout fuss or ado, Ferry his head gear, dropped h'k to ihe. 42 and again with Mdirg the ball, lifted the leather across the bar.

The ball an inch of striking (tin These, two kicks not Fordham In a 6-0 hole, r. rattled the Rams. 1-aniH Find Selves menace. The closest, the Hoosiers rame to scoring was in the. final period.

A pass interference ruling gave them the. ball on Ohio's 33, but Mike Kahealo's recovery of an Indiana fumble halted that threat. The Bucks then made their most sustained running attack, to the Hoosier four-yard line. Indiana held in the shade of its goal post with an incomplete Ohio pass into the end zone. ii manpower and was trampled plunder four moie touchdowns after "'the Gophers had stored their first, marker in the o.ieninf period.

The Boilermakers staged a willing and desperate battle but. were out-manned and out-charged, Towards I the end, reserve players like "iMatheny, Bates, Moore, and jj Wrightson and a flock of others were tearing big gaps in Purdue's line which was rapidly weakening jj; and tiring. Thus the Gophers, unbeaten in 1 1 28 games and victorious in their J- last 21, continued their march i to. the Wrestern Conference cham-pionship, perhaps to the National VJ championship, in the knowledge i that they have conquered one of the most feared elevens on their schedule. with flying footballs most of the lime.

Occasionally Buivid or Art Guepe would run just to show the Spartans that they could do that too, but, the Hilltoppers depended upon the aerial game for most of their gains. Marquette attempted 21 passes nil told and completed eight of them for a gain of 112 yards, or an average gain of 14 yards a pass. State tried 11 passes, most of them late In the game when the Spartans took to the air in a desper-plcasr. Turn to Fngc 2 Column 6 IS 1 II Mnhxtln Murnm-im Mii'lOE'tn Slal Allium Milkilal. nrttinn MBt Michigan Tirh, Halnmaien I Hni VlriHii a Afc.ilmnflnn MirMrun Vormnl II (oil, hi.

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Smithers slaughter started in the second gained a yard. Sweet hit through s(nza when Pitt put on a 76-yard center, cut over to his left and "'arch with Goldberg leading the drove through for 11 and the rharge. Just before the second score. Pp'''od ended, Larue broke away Columbia Takes Chances a 67-'1ar'1 run to Dame tu three-yard line, where fleet-footed ahant battling even the cmf from bfhinJ count, Columbia tossed passes with; throw- him out of bourn's abandon in the final stanza, The lnsh a Backe.1 into his end zone by a re- h.ro on nlav. mi.

m. in I kicking: and passing had been a The Ohio touchdown came with) major feature of the Titans' battle. dramatic suddenness. Both the; Eefore the fourth quarter was f'l like the Fordhams to pieces when they 15-yard penalty for motion, setting them heir 45. Captain Frank as smeared on the Rams' thereafter the Rams teams had battled on even terms; three minutes old, Thp RoiterinaWet-q with Ihe ht-il.

throughout the first period. Shortly i placed himself in the ranks of U. uir iirtii too- liant Cecal Isbell as'the soearhead I.tless Michigan line, Vollmer was after the second stanza of D. stars by starting the most Mississippi Is Victor UNIVERSITY, Oct. 24 fA.

Coach Walker's University of Mississippi football team scored two touchdown passes in the second period today to defeat Catholic. University, 14 to 0. Ohio took a punt on its own 40. sensational play of the game. It Ki-nanflaae rirasr.

Turn In P'ige. 3 t'oliinin Tartrate Turn to P.igr. 5 Column 3 1 1'lcixf Tuin lo rnge tColumn hack Into form like a ii'C suddenly released, ''-he passed to Palau for and then the Rams unit neat, forward lateral, 20 yards, Palau to i to Wojciehowicz. The halted temporarily hy taking desperate chances. Twice he tossed and missed his receiver only by inches.

But the odds were against him. The Wolverines were fanned out to stop passes. Ritchie intercepted Vollmer's third successive toss at speed in the center of the field. He cut over to his left as the Michigan team quickly start'-d blocking. He scored standing up with a half I'lnim: linn to VniJ" 3 6 Agony Al Agett Gets Away, but It Was Boomerang for the Spartans eu.

r.ut there was no holding the Panther in check from this point, on. He was out of his cage on a wild and woolly ram page. On the next, kickoff the galloping Goldberg ran the ball hack 55 yards. About three plays later St'apulis threw a pass to Hoffman for 45 yards and the Seron. to-u-hdown.

In th. fourth period a 25-vard clipping penalty against Notre Dair.e put Goldberg asam in s'ght of the Irish and oei- he went on the sernnd The concludipg thrust rati? a fe-v romutes qtr when Wood intercepted a Smith Bend pass and slipped away forty yard3 for the fourth touch of their attack, outgained the Gophers from scrimmage in the first, half, piling up eight first downs to three for Minnesota and amassing 1S5 yards to 93 for the Gophers. But in the second half the. Minnesota secondary started snaring Isbell long passes. Intercept Passes In the final accounting it was Andy Uram, Whitman Roik.

Bill Matheny, Julie Alfonse and Larry Buhler who were accredited with Minnesota's touchdowns, three of them coming ns the result of intercepted passes hy which the penalty and then Palau to lio-unski in the end a touchdown. Palau placement, sending ahi'nd 7-6, a few seconds oe first period ended The Victors! is the end of the scoring red of the game saw he I Ol MRI Mil Hid 'pei'I Boilermakers had hoped to offset Srhnla L.K down. I. l.arltf Homtiii the ruthless desperate charging of iViTai'n" Minnesota's power. i Hrvv The gam opened with expected itn-man Blocking Is Deadly O-i this long U.sh about two.

thirds- of the Irish team were left, sprawling in the wake of Pitta- ar finer I 11 ht Mni.k Birila, Sletel I K.I K.I Kit il II II I- it nniife 'to outfight and outplay who lost their in the second period Kerry was forced out with left knee The invaders a desperate, passing at-midway through the final 1 an attack fraught with for the. Rams, but the New haoks were, on the alert. 'sUm's victory over the the Californians' lead imiiii-e, nurgr. lemur blockire. Man I-Ufev lairhman HtMliikky R'niiiitl MiehiKan iitiinitiiit man was taken out as Wood thrills when on the second play from scrimmage after receiving (he kickoff Uram slipped around left end and tossed a lateral to Alfonse who galloped 30 yards be-foie he was forced out of bounds.

Then the Gophers intercepted Ce I -V i Tni(elinn n. I'. I. KililH. alte li.uitiilnrt mithr' ill deftly picked his openings on his way to the goal.

Notre Dame never had a chance. It was late the third) renod before the Irish attack ever picked up its first irst-dow and or.ee during the game, the result of a fine pass. Notre Dame plant its cleats in Pittsburgh 3 i' mtersectional series, which tihOtntintii: I ul 11 mil 1 a lii-l. 'itl-mar. 1 la.air.

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Uram i then slashed through tackle to the 11-yard stripe, and as due's defenders swarmed around, he whirled and flipped a lateral to Aifocse ho slid over for the MKV HIKDHAM I'aqnln otg Ha of Statistics of Game Marmn iriiN'liiiw irf l.nmtiarili nil mi Ilnwa I'll. ii I.ll.nka 1. 1 Ui. I ii K.I a.i a Ml 1 h' fust marker. v.

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