"The Committee is opposed to post-season football games of all descriptions, including so-called 'bowl games,' feeling they have no part in the athletic programs of the colleges. We believe this to be so because such games serve no sound educational ends and such promotions merely trade upon intercollegiate football for commercial purposes."
Adopted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, in accepting the report of its committee to investigate influences inimical to intercollegiate sport, this pronunciamento was the biggest news contributed last week by the annual meetings of the N. C. A. A., the College Physical Education Association and the American Football Coaches Association, held simultaneously in Manhattan. Meanwhile, an aggregate crowd of 219,000 watched 14 teams tardily conclude the football season of 1936 on the first day of 1937 in seven post-season games, from San Francisco to Havana.
When Pittsburgh was invited to play in the Rose Bowl, Los Angeles sports writers suggested their readers might boycott the game on the ground that the Panthers would provide no opposition, scolded Washington for picking a pushover. If they read the publicity, the Panthers had sense enough to withhold comment until the ball was kicked off to them. The pushovers then began to push.
Gloomy Coach John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland knew that Coach Jim Phelan had drilled the Huskies to watch Marshall Goldberg. 18-year-old Panther halfback. He kept Goldberg out of his attack, used him as a decoy to suck in the defense while Bobby LaRue and Frank Patrick took the ball away. Eel-hipped Patrick's spinners knifed long gashes in the famed Washington line. LaRue pointed his knees at the Husky ends, hitting top speed in a stride or two while his interference took out the secondary defense as if they thought each play was a potential touchdown.
Patrick punched over the Panthers' first touchdown at the end of a long march in the first period, their second when LaRue cut through centre for 44 yards and paved the way for him in the third. In the fourth quarter. Bill Daddio 'intercepted a Washington lateral, scampered 70 yards to the goal line. Pittsburgh's first victory in four Rose Bowl tries was watched by a capacity crowd of 87.000. Score: 21-to-0.
Chagrined when once-beaten, once-tied Pittsburgh got the Rose Bowl invitation,
Louisiana State, with no blot on its record except a tie with Texas, agreed to play Santa Clara, then the only undefeated, untied major college team in the U. S., for the "national championship" in the Sugar BowL Texas Christian the following week dampened Louisiana State's hopes by beating Santa Clara. Last week in New Orleans, Santa Clara doused them thoroughly by beating Louisiana State, with two touchdowns in the first period, another in the third, 21-10-14.
Duquesne, celebrated for its victory over Pitt, picked to uphold the North against Mississippi State, did so in Miami's Orange Bowl by the margin of Boyd Brumbaugh's place kick after his own touchdown in the second period, 13-to-12.