Sport: Trophies and Gophers

Toward the mythical championship of U.S. college football, Minnesota still leads the nationwide march this week. The goal ahead is a new team trophy whose donor is Minnesota's own M Club (lettermen).

Its members have just put up a walnut-&-silver plaque in memory of the father of Minnesota football, Dr. Henry L. Williams, head coach from 1900 to 1922.

Like its two predecessors,* the Williams award will go to the college winning the mythical U.S. championship three times during the next ten years. But instead of a private jury, its basis of reckoning...

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