"I have stopped thinking. This gang may go out and play its head off and win or it may beat itself on its mistakes as it has been doing all season.''—Notre Dame's Coach Heartly (''Hunk") Anderson before last week's game with Army.
"Well, we were long overdue. . . . You know, eight of the eleven starting for us were playing their last game and they just decided to go out and win a ball game for themselves." — Coach Anderson, after Notre Dame beat Army, 13-12.
Army went into the game undefeated, untied. Notre Dame had won only two games all season, had scored only twice. During the first half of last week's game at New York's Yankee Stadium Army made two touchdowns, thanks to Quarterback '"Beany" Johnson and Halfback "Texas Jack" Buckler. The outcome seemed so certain that nobody worried much when both Buckler's kicks for extra point failed. The break came in the final period after a march from midfield. Notre Dame's smiling Halfback Nick Lukats ripped through and around Army's line, did not stop until he had rammed over Army's goal. Quarterback Bonar kicked the extra point. A few minutes later Lukats sent a prodigious kick 70 yd. to Army's 8-yd. line where Notre Dame's giant Tackle "Moose" Krause downed it. In Buckler's place, a yearling named Simons dropped back to punt. He juggled the ball, and in that moment Notre Dame's Left End Wayne Millner tore through, blocked the kick, fell on the ball for a touchdown.
Princeton rubbed Yale's nose in the dirt harder than it had ever done since they began playing in 1873—27-to-2. Alone among all Humpty Dumpties of the season, Princeton remained unshaken by so much as a tie. Starting slowly, as usual, Princeton found itself about to kick from its own 20-yd. line. As Halfback "Chick" Kaufman dropped back to punt, Yale's Tackle John Milcullen rushed through, blocked the kick. The ball rolled beyond the end zone, giving Yale a safety and its only score of the day. Thereafter Princeton settled down to the business of driving through four touchdowns. The first went to a hard-hitting tackle named Charles Ceppi who blocked a Yale kick on the 35-yd. line, scooped up the ball and raced across the line. The second started with a march from midfield by crack Halfback '"Garry" Le Van and Fullback "Pepper" Constable, and ended with a lateral pass to Halfback Spoffard from the 6-yd. line. Five plays carried the ball 54 yd. for Le Van to score the third. A whippet-tank march from the 35-yd. line made the fourth.
Howard v. Lincoln is the Big Game among Negro colleges. Last week they played at night on Atlantic City's Million Dollar Pier. Lincoln's Left Tackle Robeson, kin of famed Singer Paul Robeson, scored a touchdown after a blocked kick. But Howard's Quarterback "Showboat" Wares would not be stopped. He made one touchdown, made possible another, to win 13-to-7.
Georgia's lightweight defense was like paper to Southern California, whose Left End Julius Bescos gathered in forward passes for two of five touchdowns. 31-to-0.
Having beaten Missouri on Thanksgiving Day, Kansas earned the name of "Iron Man Team" by beating George Washington University two days later, 7-to-0.