(See front cover) Last week's major scores:
Army 46 Harvard 0
Columbia 7 Navy 6
Fordham 14 St. Mary's 0
Pittsburgh 19 Perm 12
Princeton 53 I.ehigh 0
Duke 13 Kentucky 0
Louisiana State 6 South Carolina 0
Tennessee 31 Mississippi State 0
Tulane 20 Georgia Tech 14
Michigan 7 Indiana 0
Minnesota 26 Mississippi U. 0
Missouri 14 Oklahoma 6
Nebraska 14 Iowa 13
Notre Dame 24 Kansas 6
Wisconsin 20 Illinois 12
Washington 18 Stanford 13
U. S. C. 27 California 7
If you want to compile an All-American football team, a good way is to start with the best quarterback of the year. If anyone had been sufficiently enthusiastic to begin making up an All-American this way last fortnight, the first name might have been Orville Mohler, of Southern California. Quick, wiry and comparatively light (166 lb.), a licensed airplane pilot, president of the U. S. C. student body, Orville Mohler may not be on the All-American teams compiled at the season's close, but only because of an injury to his spine which closed his football career two weeks ago, when U. S. C. was playing Stanford. If Mohler had been on the U. S. C. team that played California at Los Angeles last week, more people might have gone to see the game. As it was, there were 75,000, biggest crowd of the week. Even without Mohler, U. S. C. had a team which contained four Ail-American prospects: Captain and Left Tackle Raymond C. ("Tay") Brown, who makes a specialty of blocking punts; Right Tackle Ernie Smith, who has a bald head, huge paws and a talent for place-kicks; Ray Sparling, left-end, and at the other end of the line Ford Palmer who caught the two passes that enabled U. S. C. to beat Stanford last fortnight.
For the first three periods of last week's game against California, U. S. C. did what everyone had expected. Then, in the last quarter, occurred something that has not happened before this year—Southern California was scored on, with a 35-yd. forward pass from Henry Schaldach to Right End David Meek. But this interruption mattered little. By that time Southern California had four touchdowns by Mohler's understudies, Homer Griffith and Irvine Warburton, and the game was practically over, 27 to 7. Southern California's victory over California was its sixth in a row this year. Last year, Southern California won all its eight games except the first, against St. Mary's. Against 66 points for opponents, Southern California scored 382, one less than Colgate's record for major teams in 1930. Southern California won the Pacific Coast Conference Championship in 1928 and 1931, tied for first in 1927 and 1929. Since 1925, whenever Southern California has failed to win the Coast Championship it has finished second (in 1925 it was third). The fact that before 1925 Southern California was a second-rate power in Coast football makes it apparent that a significant change in Southern California's football methods occurred that year. In 1925, Southern California acquired its present coach, Howard Harding Jones. The Jones record at U. S. C. to date: 70 games won; 2 tied; 10 lost.