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It was fourth down, 4 yd. to the Minnesota goal line, with 36 seconds of the first half to play. Harry Newman dropped back for a high place kick that missed hitting the goalpost by just enough to give Michigan the game which clinched the Big Ten Championship 3-to-0. Nebraska took the championship of the Big Six—Kansas. Oklahoma, Kansas State, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa State— by nosing out Oklahoma, 5-to-0, on Masterson's field goal in the third quarter and a safety in the fourth, when Right End Cherry ran back to pick up a pass from center that had gone over his head. Auburn (Alabama Polytechnic Institute) has an extraordinary football team, called "Tigers" or "Plainsmen." Its coach is Chet Wynne, Notre Dame fullback in 1921. Captain and left halfback is Jimmy Hitchcock, baldish, small, fast, whom Auburn publicists like to compare with famed Red Grange. Quarterback "Ripper" Williams is a clever arrogant field general. The Tigers have a chinless end, David ("Gump") Ariail, who may make the All-American, a stuttering sophomore end named Bennie Fenton. So far this season. Auburn has made 255 points to its opponent's 34. Last week Auburn emerged from a close shave—14-to-7— against Georgia with a claim to its first Southern Conference Championship that will probably be substantiated by the Auburn-South Carolina game this week. Navy got only four first downs to Notre Dame's 20, rushed 71 yd. to Notre Dame's 282 but it was so stubborn near its own goal line that two Notre Dame teams were lucky to grind out two touchdowns at Cleveland, 12-to-0. Pitt found Carnegie Tech a touchdown harder than Notre Dame, a touchdown easier than Nebraska, 6-to-0 in a sooty Pittsburgh snowstorm. Coach Ike Armstrong's Utah team, which has not lost a Rocky Mountain Conference game since the one the Colorado Aggies won, 12 to 0, in 1927, played the Colorado Aggies again last week, clinched its fifth Conference Championship in a row, 16 to 0. In three New York mud-puddles. Fordham nosed out Oregon State on a safety, 8-to-6, Columbia & Syracuse and Holy Cross & Manhattan played scoreless ties. Iowa State's Captain Magnussen performed a strategem suggested to him by Iowa State's new Coach Ossie Solem. He stood 20 paces away from a pile of burning straw, tossed a burning football shoe at it over his left shoulder. Next day Iowa State lost to Northwestern, 44-to-6. After 40 years of football against North Carolina, Duke and its new Coach Wallace Wade managed to win for the first time, 7-to-0. Ever since their 6-to-6 tie last month there has been bickering between Vanderbilt and Tulane. Tulane accused Vanderbilt's Assistant Coach Russ Cohen of spite in having Tulane's Captain Nollie Felts barred for professionalism. Vanderbilt accused Tulane of booing Coach Cohen at their game. Last week, Coach Cohen announced that Vanderbilt and Tulane had severed relations, that Vanderbilt would play Louisiana State University instead next year. Tulane showed no mortification; its second team ran through Sewanee, 26-to-0.
The Green Bay Packers, National League (professional) champions, had not been beaten this year until Jack McBride of the New York Giants, onetime Syracuse University star, threw a 40-yd. forward pass.