Show GRID SCORES ON LiME E Former Star Elevens Lack Added Punch By Br FOSTER HAILEY Associated Press NEW YORK Dec 5 5 te the efforts to give Ive the cus cus' more touchdowns to cheer a I compilation today loday by the Associated Press of the seasons season's records of or college football teams shows a continuance con con- in m 1934 of the scoring decline decline de de- de- de cline dine which set in four years ago Each year since 1930 the average team earn and game score has dropped Until un- un til tH II this year ear it is only 1042 points a team cam and 1219 a game In 1930 the figures were and 16 Shepherd Le Leads ds Scorers The drop in team totals is in contrast con con- rast to the individual al scoring in which the head men of 1934 1934 Bill Bill Shepherd of Western Maryland John of Willamette and Paul Miller ot of f South Dakota State State all all topped the theloa loa 03 points Pete Young of Bluefield eld college ollege made to lead the country's touchdown artis last fall Shepherd I scored cored points and Tiller Miller One Ono explanation for tor slackened scoring can be found in failure of s several cral leading teams of ot 1933 to turn out touchdowns with equal rapidity this fall Michigan and Southern California are re examples The Michigan juggernaut jugger jugger- aut last year scored points This year the creaking Ann Arbor machine machine mahine ma ma- chine hine could total only 24 Southern California in 1933 rolled up points against the same class of op Of opponents opponents over which it scored only th this his year Colgate Rolls Along The rise of several teams from poor seasons in 1933 to top ranking in their sections is shown in the figures here's heres Navy y with only 90 points last year ear and this year Minnesota with 64 and North Carolina with 71 1 and Ohio State with and 67 Rice with 56 and and Southern South- South em ern rn Methodist with 93 and A few old Colgate Colgate Centenary Army Arm Columbia Georgia Louisiana Sta State and Tu Tu- lanc lane kept kept rollin along scoring almost the same number of ot points this year ear as last The gold footballs footballs foot foot- balls for consistency go to the he heRed Red Raiders of or the Chenango who scored points last year ear and this a record approached only by California with and respectively Army with and and Georgia with and |