Arriving in Pittsburgh for the most important game of the week, Notre Dame's Coach Heartly ("Hunk") Anderson gave a satisfied sniff. Reporters asked him why. Said Coach Anderson: "The weather . . . it's nice, and that's all we ask." Nice weather was all that Notre Dame got. A crowd of 65,000, biggest of the week, watching two undefeated teams each with a chance for the championship of the U. S., saw the most surprising upset of the season so far, Pitt 12, Notre Dame 0.
Pitt's two touchdowns came in two minutes, early in the last quarter. This was after the seasoned Notre Dame team, which had scored a point a minute against its first three opponents, had spent the early part of the game throwing ineffectual passes and trying to find an alignment of backs that could gain consistently on the ground. A Notre Dame punt went to Pitt's 26-yd. line. Left Halfback Warren Heller carried the ball 8 yd. around end. Right Halfback Mike Sebastian went through tackle for six more. Fullback Izzy Weinstock punched 15 yd. through a gap in the left side of the Notre Dame line. On the next play, Sebastian faked a pass, cut for the west sidelines, reversed his field, scampered 45 yd. for a touchdown. Pitt kicked off. Koken dropped back to try a pass for Notre Dame. Dailey, 165-Ib. Pittsburgh end, caught it on Notre Dame's 17-yd. line and dodged through dazzled and disorganized opposition till he reached the end-zone. It was the first beating that Pitt has given Notre Dame in a six-year rivalry. It caused this year's Pitt team to be compared to the Pitt team of 1916, which averaged a point every two minutes through a whole season.
Ignorant bookmakers offered to bet 40 to 1 that Michigan, Western Conference leader, would beat Princeton at Ann Arbor. Princeton recovered a fumble on Michigan's 16-yd. line and turned it into a touchdown in the second quarter; Michigan's only score in the half was a safety when Bales was tackled in his end-zone. After the half, Michigan's defense tightened. Michigan's centre, Bernard, fell on a rolling ball for one touchdown and lantern-jawed Harry Newman completed his only pass of the game for another. Michigan 14, Princeton 7.
The University of California at Los Angeles which started to play Conference football in 1928, played it without brilliant success until this season. Against Oregon, three weeks ago, the last play of the game was a 75-yd. run for a touchdown which won for U. C. L. A., 12 to 7. Against Stanford last week, Verdi Boyer, California reserve guard, blocked two punts that brought two touchdowns that gave Stanford its second thrashing in two weeks, 13 to 6, before a crowd of 55,000 at Los Angeles.
Last fortnight Tulane's Captain Felts was ruled ineligible because he played professional baseball before going to college. Last week there were rumors that Tennessee's bowlegged halfbreed Indian Halfback Beattie Feathers had played more baseball last summer than Southern Conference rules allow. Against Duke, Feathers scored both the touchdowns which, with Wynn's field goal to break a tie in the last three minutes, kept Tennessee's record intact, 16 to 13.