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Navy had a new coach, a new "system" and a crack back named "Buzz" Borries. Columbia had last year's Rose Bowl champions, weak line reserves, a crack back named Al Barabas. Barabas reeled, wriggled, ran for a touchdown four minutes after the game started. It was the last Columbia got. Borries made two, and most of the gains that led to the third. Navy 18, Columbia 7. On the strength of his name, Notre Dame's William Shakespeare got into the papers last year when he flunked an English course.
He got into them again last week on the strength of a 56-yd. run for the first of the two touchdowns that beat Carnegie Tech, 13-to-0.
On a sultry afternoon at Birmingham. Alabama outguessed Tennessee in the game that may settle the Southeastern Conference title, 13-to-6.
A "promotion" editor of the Daily Bruin at the University of California at Los Angeles set up an agency to arrange ''blind dates" for the football game with the University of California at Berkeley. His clients saw University of California win a tight, well-played game, on Halfback Williams' place-kick in the last quarter, 3-to-0. Yale, considered quite likely to lose, smashed Brown to bits, 37-to-0.
Harvard, considered quite likely to win, collapsed against Holy Cross. 6-to-26. Princeton, overwhelming favorite to thrash Washington & Lee, squeaked through with a touchdown in the last minute of play, 14-12. When he contemplated attending University of Iowa, Negro Oze Edward Simmons, son of a Fort Worth janitor, wrote Football Coach Ossie Solem to make sure there was no prejudice against his race. Assured that there was none, he boarded a freight train, enrolled in the class of 1937, worked his way by washing cars. Last year, he drew attention to himself by running through the entire Iowa varsity six times in a single practice scrimmage. Last week, Oze Simmons was on the freight again against Iowa State which kept him carefully covered, piled up four touchdowns and a field goal, 31-to-6. Southern California almost won a game, before Oregon State scored in the last quarter. 6-to-6. Michigan State, starting a 6,000 mi. jaunt to Syracuse, N. Y., Detroit, Mich., Lawrence, Kans., and San Antonio, Tex., stopped at Brooklyn to polish off Manhattan College. 39-to-0.
With 45 seconds left to play, Centenary's Parker kicked a field goal through University of Texas' ambitions for an undefeated season, 9-to-6.
Longest run of the week in a major game: 97 yd., by Chicago's Jay Berwanger, for the last of three touchdowns that beat Indiana 21-to-0.
Schoolboys: Taft 47, Hotchkiss 0; St. Mark's 13. Middlesex 6. Professionals: New York Giants 17, Pittsburgh Pirates 7. Chicago Bears 41, Cincinnati Reds 7. Convicts: Sing Sing, 41, Port Jervis Police, 0.