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Newsworthy as any game last week was the abrupt resignation of Stanford's famed Coach Glenn Scobey ("Pop") Warner, because of "dissatisfaction" after an unsuccessful season, to become head coach at Temple University, in Philadelphia, which had troubles of its own last week (see p. 46).
None of the college football games played last week helped at all to settle the question of which is the best football team in the U. S. The Southern California v. Notre Dame game this week will not settle it nor will the Rose Bowl game on Jan 1, in which Pittsburgh was last week invited to oppose Southern California. Experts are well aware that the best football teams in the U. S. are the eight professional teams in the National Football League. Last week the National League championship was at stake in a game between the Green Bay (Wis.) Packers and the Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans, at Portsmouth. Green Bay, thrice League champion, had lost only one game this season; their record for three years was 35 games won, 3 lost, 2 tied. A penalty paved the way for Portsmouth's first touchdown in the first quarter; a pop-up punt gave them the chance for another in the next period. When the game was over, 19 to 0 for the Spartans, they had performed the astonishing feat of putting the Packers out of the running for the championship, needed only a victory over the Chicago Bears, in case the Bears beat the Packers this week, to clinch it for themselves.
The Green Bay Packers got their name because a packing company gave them their uniforms in 1918, the year the team was organized by its present coach, Earl Louis ("Curly") Lambeau, who had played for one year at Notre Dame on the first team that the late Knute Rockne coached. Green Bay was one of the 14 teams which in 1921 started the National Football League, after professional football, which had been played intermittently since 1895, had fallen into a decline. A heavy college line weighs 190 lb. from end to end. The Green Bay line weighs 220 lb. Heaviest lineman is Jugger Earpe, 257-lb. tackle. There are eleven former captains of college teams on the Green Bay Packers' squad, but few All-Americans. This year's star back is Arnold ("Flash") Herber, a Belgian who went to St. Regis College (Wis.) for one year, never played varsity football. Most of the Green Bay Packers live in Green Bay. Halfback Verne Lewellen is a district attorney. Halfback Bruder drives a truck. Right Guard Stahlman plays minor league baseball when not playing football. Verne Dilweg, whom famed Red Grange of the Chicago Bears considers the ablest end he has ever met, is a lawyer.