Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 149, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1927 — Page 12

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PLAYING AFIELD With Billy Evans — 1 mN LOOKING over the scores of the week-end games recently, I discovered that on one Saturday, no less than 20 runs of from 70 yards to the length of the field were registered throughout the country. Rather sur_j/TTITi mm prised at these S statistics, I asked 03T. a well-known tjiL Wk how he accounted wa for it, after he iIL 'm hac * hat Jj worked were featJmjm than the average runs. Evans “The lateral pass, or perhaps better, the fear of it, has greatly opened up the play, spread the lines, thereby setting the stage for good open field runners, possessing speed and a change of pace,” was the offiicial’s explanation. Since that was the hope of the lateral pass, it would seem Its incorporation into the rules has had the desired effect. * * * MANY STRANGE SOPHOMORES ~"3 HAT a year this is proving to \X/ be for backs playing their __J first year. Many of the leading teams lost a number of outstanding backfield men at the close of last season. It was feared their absence would wreck the offense of certain elevens. In a great many cases sophomore backs have made the football fans forget about senior stars of 1926. Just a few of the leading performers gleaned from various sections of the country at random are Masters of Dartmouth, Welch of Purdue, Thomason of Georgia Tech, Lorn of California, Brafield of Alabama and scores of others. By a peculiar coincidence, two of the most discussed backs of the year are named Welch and each sports a “P” on his sweater, one hailing from Purdue, the other from Pittsburgh. One fear that several coaches have about their sophomore stars is that the strain of the big games may lessen some of their efficiency. * * * FEW UNCROSSED GOALS t Y rl ITH more open play than ever yy on display in football, it is —I only natural that uncrossed goal lines are the decided exception. The forward pass, the lateral heave and other open ’formations have made it difficult for any coach to provide a defense that isn’t impenetrable. i Winning the game regardless of the score is now the slogan of the major teams, who once believed it a disgrace to have a minor college eleven cross its goal line.

Notre Dame andPurdue Win Outstanding State Battles Saturday; Other Contests Reviewed

BY DICK MILLER? • Mr. Hoosier football fan thrust out his chest today and with a broad smile O. K.’d the week-end showings made by Indiana College teams Saturday. Os twelve games played, eight were against out-State elevens. Os these frays three were won, four lost and one tied. The other four games were intra-State battles. The victors generally were acclaimed by dope before hand. It was highly pleasing the way the Notre Dame team walloped the advertised best of the South, Georgia Tech, 26-7. Knute Rockne had few worries as he sat on the bench and watched his shock tipops ably handle the vaunted southern tornado.” Wilcox Spurs Purdue Another fizzle challenger was Montana. The alleged Cowboys seemed to ride Cotton-shod mounts as they galloped into the Purdue Boilermakers. Jimmy Phelan, Purdue mentor, decided on the second string idea of a starting line-up. Montana spurted to an early touchdown. Phelan rushed out the regulars, including Captain Wilcox who has been on the hospital list most of the season. The pair, Wilcox and Welch, certainly obtained practice as they ran, passed and kicked in spectacular manner all afternoon. The final whistle stopped the scoring that had reached 39-7. The return of Wilcox to the line-up seemed to be the stimulant needed to make Purdue a winning team. After playing two great games in which they had been keyed to supreme efforts,..against Minnesota and Notre Dame, the Indiana University squad traveled East and tackled the big Harvard team at Cambridge. It was a different Harvard team than Purdue met three weeks ago and defeated. In fact the Easterners seemed to profit 'by the Purdue defeat. About the fourth quarter the excitement wore off and the tiring process of Harvard substitutes began to tell in touchdowns. The easterners scored three and ran their lead to 26 to 6. Bennett Scores * \ Harvard plunged the line for a march to the Hoosier goal in the first quarter. Indiana turned tables for a similar driven in the second period. A pass, Balay to Bennett, was good for six points. The score remained 7 to 6 until the last quarter when Harvard began inter-

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67 Pros Start Play in P. G.A. Meet at Dallas Bu United Press DALLAS, Tex., Oct. 31.—Qualifying rounds of the Professional Golfers Association tournament began here today with sixty-seven of the country’s best pros entered. Thirty-six holes of medal play started today and qualifiers who emerge will play through thirty-six holes of match play until Saturday, when the winner will be decided. The field, considered as great as any which ever entered the event, (includes such stars as Walter Hagen, present champion; Gene Sarazen, Tommy Armour, Johnny Farrell, A1 Espinosa, Harry Cooper, Bill Mehlhorn, Bobby Cruickshank, Joe Turnesa, and a host of others. MARION TURPIE WINS Bu Times Special NEW ORLEANS, La., Oct. 31. Marion Turpie, New Orleans, was the victory in the Louisiana women’s golf tourney here Saturday, defeating Mrs. E. F. Neild, Shreveport, in the final round.

Battle for Eastern Grid Honors Between Yale, Princeton Elevens Race for Title on Atlantic Seaboard May Be Decided by Nov. 12 Clash at New Haven.

Bit United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—Yale and Princeton, ex-members of the old Big Three, are leading the pack into the November stretch along the eastern gridiron trail. Equipped with a good, old-fash-ioned line and one of the star backs of the Nation in Bruce Caldwell, Yale has on successive Saturdays beat Brown, Army and Dartmouth, giving the last two their first defeats of the season. Georgia came up from down South to give Yale a 14-to-10 defeat in early October, but if the truth of that game be known Georgia was mighty lucky to win. Yale squandered five opportunities to score in the final quarter. With something of a great line itself and a four-star back field Baruch, Wittmer, Norman and Miles—Princeton is snapping at the heels of the Yale Bulldogs. Princeton is undefeated, but its only real clafm to greatness is a 21-10 victory over Cornell. Both have intersectional games this week, Princeton meeting Ohio State at Palmer Stadium for the first gridiron game between those two schools and Yale playing Maryland in the bowl. The following week, Nov. 12, Yale and Princeton meet at New Haven j

cepting Indiana passes. Two were turned into touchdowns in fast order. Again Watford, Negro full back shone as the bright star of the Butler team, this time in defeat at the hands of Lombard, at Irwin Feld. Watford carried the oval over early in the opening period. The score was tied by Nesti who was the briliant performer for the Illinois team. He ended up a forward pass drive down the field by dashing off tackle for eight yards and a touchdown. The score remained 6 to 6 at half time. Lombard, led by Nesti, scored two counters in the second half, the game ending 19 to 6 in Lombard’s favor. Cedarville of Ohio, led Earlham, 7 to 6 at the half and appeared a winner, 13 to 6, when they scored another touchdown near the close of the game. However, enough time remained for Druley of Earlham to catch a couple of long passes and carry the ball to tha 1-yard line, where Miser plunged over to tie the score at 13 to 13, as the final gun cracked. / Valpo Wins One Wheaton (111.) College invaded Valparaiso to take defeat, 19-0, in the first victory of the season for Valpo. The Illinois team was outweighed and outclassed. Raiser, fullback for the Valpo team, was the star with three touchdowns ip his credit. The two other Indiana teams that went out-StStte to'meet defeat were Rose Poly and Manchester. Rose fell before the Eastern Illinois Normay squad at Charleston, 111., 26-0. The teachers have a clean slate this fall and it appears they will rate high in the Illinois college circles when the final curtain drops. Manchester fell before the Asland College team, 22-6. Coach Burt of the “Chesters” guessed the Ohioans wrong and started his second team. He soon discovered his mistake, but his regulars were unable to stem the tide in the second half. Ashland scored two touchdowns and a safety. One of the leading State battles staged was between De Pauw and Franklin, in celebrating Old Gold day at Greencastle. The two teams

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Southpaws Beaten, but Give Kokomo Battle in Hard Independent Fray

Bu Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Oct. 31.—The Kokomo American Legion eleven turned back the Indianapolis Southpaw team Sunday, 10-0. The local team was never in immediate goal line danger, but the Indianapolis squad was. a threat until the last whistle. Bolstered by the presence of the three Fisher brothers, Scott, George and Fred, the Southpaw warriors battled the locals even the first quarter. An overhead attack by the Legion carried the ball to the fif-teen-yard line, where the visitors held, for three downs. Harmeson dropped back and booted a placekick for. three points. The teams battled for a break and the locals got it when Strohl intercepted a Southpaw pass and sprinted to the ten-yard line. A drive ended when Singleton plunged over just a few seconds before the half ended. Harmeson kicked the additional point. That was the extent of the scoring.

in the annual game and the victor may walk off the gridiron with the best claim to Eastern football honors. Two Pennsylvania elevens—Pittsburgh and Washington and Jefferson—have been cutting quite a swath and rank among the best elevens of this section. They clash at Pittsburgh Saturday. The widely heralded New York University eleven failed miserably in its first real test of the season, being held to a scoreless tie by Colgate, beaten by V. P. I. and Wabash. The Army smashed the unbeaten record of Bucknell with a 34 to 0 defeat. Brown, the biggest disappointment of the season, lost its fourth straight game to Temple, 7 to 0. Nine of last year's undefeated “iron men” are on the 1927 Brown team. In stopping the triumphant march of Dartmouth, Yale proved a rugged line will offset an eleven built strictly along offensive lines with its strength in the backfield. The score was 19 to 0. A running mate for the great Caldwell was discovered in the second quarter, when John Garvey went in for Caldwell and in fourteen plays carried the ball for two touchdowns, covering nearly 100 yards.

presented a stubborn defenses and battled three quarters to a scoreless tie. The Tigers started several drives towards goal,'but always fell short with the needed touchdown punch. Easter, big Franklin tackle, was injured. The De Pauw offense was directed at the sub in his position. The plan worked. Scott, who did some great plunging, crossed the last chalk line after De Pauw made a fifty-yard drive down field following the intercepting of a wild Baptist pass. Evas Down Hanover “Gorilla” Dick, plunging full back for Evansville and R. Rea, veteran quarter back, both scored touchdowns and the “Evas” defeated Hanover, 13-0, in the Evansville homecoming. The Evansville team kept Hanover plugging up hill so much that the “Hilltoppers” lacked the punch by the time they reached strikinig distance to score. Wabash walked on the Indiana State normal team, 40-0, in a letdown game. The second and third string teams were sufficient to pile up the score on the Terre Haute outfit. Muncie Normal and Oakland City were tied at the end of three quarters, 7-7. Muncie trailed at the half, 7-0. Muncie took an offensive

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Illinois, at Top of Conference Grid Heap, Meets lowa. WILDCATS AT PURDUE Suckers May Be 1927 Team.’ BY CLARK B. KELSEY, United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Oct. 31.—80 b Zuppke, crafty coach of the University of Illinois, now appears in the role of “miracle man” of the 1927 football season so far as the Middle West is concerned. Zuppke’s charges, viewed by the experts when t/is season opened as “good football team which wasn't" going anywhere,” rest today on the top of the percentage column in the Big Ten Conference. They are there by virtue of their surprising 14-to-0 victory over Michigan Saturday—the outstanding upset of the week-end. The Illini have three more games on their schedule—lowa, Chicago and Ohio State —and any one of those games may turn out to be an upset; but if dope means anything at all, Illinois should come out at the end of the season the only undefeated, untied team in the Conference. If Zuppke’s men lose any one of those three games, then it is up to somebody to. beat Minnesota or Minnesota will be undisputed champion. Minnesota won. 13 to 7, over Wisconsin Saturday. Northwestern, with one victory and one defeat on its Big Ten record, faces Purdue at Lafayette. With “Tiny” Lewis and several other regulars on the sidelines, Northwestern suffered a humiliating 34-to-19 set-back Saturday at the hands of Missouri’s Tigers, who were likewise crippled. Michigan and Chicago, each with two victories and one defeat, meet at Chicago and the outcome is a toss-up, although most critics favor Michigan. Indiana, disappointed in its defeat at the hands of Harvard, rests .this week by taking on Michigan State of Lansing. Ohio State, victors over Chicago by a count of 13 to 7, goes East to meet Princeton, and Wisconsin’s Badgers—who pressed Minnesota to the limit before accepting defeat Saturday—take on Grinneil in a practice game at Madison. Illinois meets lowa at lowa City this Saturday in the first of its three tests and this game will be one of the feature attractions on the Saturday program. lowa hasn’t showed to good advantage yet this year, but if the theory that every team has one good game in its system proves up, it may be that Saturday will be “lowa’s day.” The Hawkeyes didn’t add much to their glory in beating Denver U., 15 to 0.

spurt in the third quarter and tied the score when Liggett plunged over. In the fourth period Muncie ran wild. Four more touchdowns were added and a kick after touchdown ran the final count of 32-7. TIGERS BEAT HARVARD! But Only in Contest Involving Old Grads —Score 7-0. fill Times Special NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—Former stars of the Princeton University football team were arrayed against Harvard grads here Sunday and triumphed. 7 to 0, in a game arranged to help cement relations between the Tiger institution and the Crimson. Proceeds were turned over to the Red Cross. Bob Beattie, Princeton hero of two years ago, gave the 5,000 fans a thrill when he scored the touchdown almost singlehanded in the third quarter.

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These eight warriors of Yale helped boost the Eli stock sky-high Saturday when the bulldogs scored a 19-to-0 triumph over the hitherto undefeated Dartmouth eleven at New Haven. The Yale crew is now In training for its clash with Princeton following its contest with Maryland next week end. Hoben, Caldwell, Decker and Eddy serve in the backfield, while Quarrier, Greene, Charlesworth and Fishwick are mainstays in the forward wall.

City H. S. Teams Get Even Break Indianapolis high school elevens J succeeded in gaining an even break; in contests played Saturday. Cathedral won, Boys' Prep lost and Wash- ! ington made it all square by battling to a tie with Carmel. The Cathedralites nosed out the j strong Jasonville eleven, 7 to 6, in one of the hardest-fought games of the year for the Irish. Dugan scored the touchdown and added the winning try for point. Boys’ Prep tumbled beforee the attack of Wilkinson and tne visitors walked off with a 19-to-7 decision. The locals were surprised with the speed and snap of the Wilkinson eleven. Washington and Carmel divided the honors, 6 to 6, in an evenly j matched affair. Both touchdowns were made in the third period. HOCKEY CAPTAIN Bu Vnitvd Prvutt WINNIPEG, Man., Oct. 31.—The Minneapolis Millers in the American Association Hockey League will be

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Trades Tickets for Auto Pu United Press r—lT. PAUL, Oct. 31.—1 t Q I was quite a problem to | | obtain tickets for the Minnesota-Wisconsin football game Saturday, and as a result Edgar Ukkelberg, reserve Gopher tackle, owns an automobile. Ukkelberg took the three tickets allotted him as a player and went bartering. He selected the automobile and turned the tickets over in payment. “She’s got good rubber and mechanics, if she is a bit dilapidated looking,” he said.

Fake Swim May Cause Trouble Bu United Press LONDON, Oct. 31.—The News of the World declared Saturdajf that a summons had been issued against Dr. Dorothy Cochrane Logan, who falsely swore she had swum the English channel, and her trainer, Horace Carey. The summons, the newspaper stated, would ask prosecution of Dr. Logan and Horace Carey for what is claimed to be an offense against the perjury act. It was the News of the World that presented Dr. Logan a $5,000 check for beating Gertrude Ederle’s record. Dr. Logan later confessed she had not swum the channel. She returned the check. PURDUE BEATEN Bit Times Unrein l LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 31. Michigan cross-country team defeated the Purdue harriers, 35 to 20, here Saturday. Martin, Purdue, finished first, but was afforded little support.

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Title Races in West Are Not Altered Washington Unbeaten on Coast; Intersectional Tilts Feature in Valley. Bit United Press KANSAS CITY. Oct. 31.—Intersectional football games outshone conference contests In Missouri Valley and southern districts Saturday, and the title races In both conferences were left virtually where they were last week. On the Pacific coast, Washington was left with the only clear record on no ties and no defeats. The U. of California Bears fell before the U. of Southern California, while Washington was overwhelming Whitman, 61 to 7. Stanford had no difficulty in defeating Oregon 19 to 0. Nebraska's 21-to-0 defeat of Syracuse and Missouri’s 34-to-19 triumph over Northwestern took chief interest In the Missouri valley. The lowa Aggies beat the Kansas Aggies, 12 to 7, and Kansas defeated Drake, 7 to 6, in the most Important intra-valley contests. The South’s hope for possible mythical national honors fell with Georgia Tech's defeat by Notre Dame, but Tech still remained an outstanding candidate for the southern title. Georgia remained In the race by virtue of its victory over Tulane. The outstanding game of the southwest was Texas Christian Unlveristy's triumph over Baylor,' 14 to 0.

Revised Ring Card for Tuesday

WEEKLY LEGION SHOW Ten Rounds—Mevcr Grace, Chicago, rs. Johnnie Tillman, St. Paul; 147 pound!. Eight Round*—lrving Goldberg. Brooklyn, N. Y., vs. Dudley Ring, Cincinnati; 135 pounds. Six Rounds—Howard Mitchell. Cincinnati, vs. Carl Schmadcl, Indianapolis: 132 pounds. Blx Rounds—Jackie Blatt, Evansville, rs. Jimmie Brown, Cincinnati; 128 pounds. Tour Rounds—Bruce Britt. Terre Haute, vs. Joe Lynn, Princeton; 130 pounds. SOCIAL STANDING HURT Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 31. George Godfrey of Leiperville, Negro heavyweight boxer and aspirant for championship honors, has been named defendant in a SIOO,OOO suit by Miss Nutter, 30, who charged breach of promise. Sho alleges in her complaint that she was much humiliated by Godfrey’s action and "seriously injured in her social standing.”

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