Show 1 r uC i 4 y J y f f iI i ii i s 's a Mt 4 c n COACH ROCKNE N NOTRE D DAMS DAMe COACH JON S SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CAPTAIN 1 TON By y ELMO SCOTT WATSON HERES HERE'S a touch of autumn coolness in the air and the faint purple haze that hangs over Ofer the distant hills tells that Indian summer is at hand A mammoth structure of concrete I and nd steel gleaming white in the I sunny October afternoon holds a vibrant mass of humanity humanity 50 Bands playing songs song songs the the measured cadence of r a r-a-h r r-a r r r-a-h h and anda a sharper explosion of sound as human dervishes der der- in white break into a new set of contor contor- A shifting changing kaleidoscope of color I and motion and sound which is suddenly stilled In that breathless moment before the whistle whistler r shrills rill s. s A thump and a soaring object high In Inthe r I the air the air the pounding of shoes on the turf the the Impact of human bodies two bodies two lines of husky young oung American manhood that bend and away eway Then with the eyes of the riveted I on that little group group- of 22 down there on the there re rectangular tangular patch of or green one of the lines shifts and spreads A crouching figure runs back from the mass mass and and the ball bali shoots over the thelIne theline theline line into the arms of a player far fur of off to the tIle right As he turns and takes the first step in his flight down the marked chalk-marked field the come to their feet In one mighty Touch roar roar Touch Touchdown down l And that's football Such was the scene that was repeated time after time last year and If the season of 1020 1926 is any criterion It will ba ban repeated many more times Umes during the season of 1027 When the curtan curtain cur cur- tan tain went down last November an eastern sports sportswriter sportswriter sportswriter writer declared that Superlatives es only ma may be used In reviewing the football season season season- of 1920 1926 In matters of attendance stirring competition T thrilling incident and amazing form reversals no season in the more than fifty years of gr gridiron play approached the ten weeks which recently pa passed Into history r If It on only y the matter of attendance alone were considered it would be sufficient to show what a hold football now has hns on the American public Time was when Vox knew but little of rah rah rah He lIe left that to the collegians and regarded with a tolerant e eye e th the tha autumnal madness which afflicted them early In to September reached i Its s high fever point late In October and then cooled off orr with the first snow flurries In November But In late ye years rs this virus got into the bod body politic and before he realized it Mr Average American was troubled with the fall restlessness which had heretofore afflicted only his sons sons and and daughters daughters daughters-as as they began packing their trunks to to go away college Perhaps it Is not saying saying- too much to assert that there thele Is one Individual principally responsible ble for this change in the public attitude toward football and that Individual I Is the erstwhile iceman ice man of Wheaton Ill you young Mr Harold Grange The fhe young oung Mr Grange Granga began pla playing football I under the tutelage of Coach Bob at ut the University of Illinois in 1923 1023 and Immediately L L- L gave ga promise of being an unusual ninn nian man a Then Ihen the season of 10 1 1024 i opened Illinois was dedicating Its new million dollar stadium with Michigan us the tile opposing team A crowd of ot G had gathered for the event The photograph photograph photograph photo photo- graph of that crowd is shown above Michigan kicked off oft The agile young Mr Grange received the ball and ana ran through the whole Michigan team for a touchdown Michigan kicked off ort again and after one play Grange range took the balland ball balland balland and again ran the length of the field for a a. touch touch- down In fact four times during the first quarter quarter quarter ter the Illinois halfback danced across across ss the Maize and Blue goal line to score and just to complete the afternoons afternoon's work he made another touchdown touchdown touchdown touch touch- down later in the game But nut it was not until the season of 1925 that this red-headed red youngster became a national fig fig- ure Illinois was scheduled to play Pennsylvania one of the strongest teams in the East that year and undefeated up to the time they met the western invaders on historic Franklin field The East had heard of Grange of course but it was a abit abit abit bit skeptical of the Middle West's boast boat that he was a gridiron superman three Sixty-three thousand people saw that game game saw saw Grange despite than tha handicap of a muddy field carry the ball 32 times average 11 yards on every play run through the whole Penn team twice for gains of 50 yards each time and score three touchdowns But nut more important than the the- fact that Red Grange was one of the greatest football stars tl that it ever sped ar across oss a college gridiron and that his entry into professional football gave it new life Is the fact that he was the dominant figure in giving several million Americans a new new major n jor sport Interest which promises to give baseball serious competition for the title of the great national game For after the seasons of 1924 1024 and 1925 the American public had tasted football football football foot foot- ball and found it good So it was prepared to tomake tomake tomake make the season of 1920 the greatest In every respect that the sport had known up to that time As early as the third week of the 1920 1926 season the various stadia In different parts of the country countr country coun coun- tr try seating from to more than were reporting capacity crowds By the end of the season season sea sea- son the larger colleges of the East ast reported that at least had seen their games In the Big DIg Ten the game had drawn a total gallery of more than and on the Pacific coast seven college teams had played before fans All In all nil it has been estimated that the OO or more colleges which had football teams drew into their football stands the amazing total of O O persons Since the tickets were wel priced all the way from 7 75 cents for the small colleges college to the top price of 15 for the Navy Army game It Is estimated that the American public was willing willingto to spend a minimum of ot for Its Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day afternoon diversion and that figure may be Increased by several millions when the activities of the speculators are taken into consideration It was a season of thrills and md up upsets ts too Dartmouth Dartmouth Dartmouth Dart Dart- mouth the undisputed champion of the country in 19 1925 5 and without a n defeat on Its record for nearly three years failed to win a single major contest all season losing to Y Yale le Harvard Brown and Cornell Again and again the little David triumphed over the giant Goliath Harvard lost the first game of the season to little Geneva college college col col- lege early in the season little St. St Maryg Marys out on the Pacific coast humbled the California r ti y yF F CAP CAPTAIN TAIN WILSON ARMY ARNY Bears Bears' Knute nute Rockne's Notre Dame team famous for tor U its Four Horsemanship seemed to be he riding easily to national honors until they came a cropper cropper crop crop- per at Pittsburgh and Carnegie Tech won by a 8 score of 19 10 to 0 O. But they took toole their turn i In upsetting upsetting up up- setting exercises when they ther Journeyed out to the Pacific c coast ast to meet Coach Howard Jones' Jones Southern California eleven Except for a one- one point defeat at the hands of Stanford U. U S S. S C. C had been clicking of off victories at a regular pace Then Notre Dame came alon along and handed them a 13 to 12 defeat in the game which rang down the curtain on the 1020 season Thrills and upsets upsets and thrills I At Ithaca Cornell trailing Dartmouth 7 to 23 In the last period unleashed a sensational attack which carried Dobles Doble's men to a n 24 to 23 victory over the Green At Annapolis with Colgate leading Navy 7 to 6 G in the last minute of play on the tM MIddies MIddies' 3 yard line Une and headed for a touch touchdown down a n Colgate fumbled and Llo Lloyd d a It Nava end picked up the ball and ran 97 07 yards to 9 s Navy 13 to 7 victory At Minneapolis Michigan 20 yards to 1 by Minnesota and trail I ing lug 0 0 to G 0 G. G scored a sensational victory In the tho last period when Benny nenny Friedman kicked the goal I to make a final score core o of Michigan an 7 Minnesota G 6 6 But the climax of the season In Interest and In attendance came on November 27 when the Army and the Navy met In the Soldier field stadium a al I. I I Chicago It was the first time the annual service service game had ever been pla played c west of ot the tho Alleghenies It was the first time too that s 8 crowd of had ever gathered to see a n foot ball game Early in the game gams the Navy Na ran roughshod over the Cadets I for a lead of or 14 1 to 0 O. Then the Army rallied I tied the count at 14 11 to 14 and scored a touchdown to I give them 21 a to 14 H lead Then Thin the Navy came back bacle with a volley of passes and Halfback skirted the end for a touchdown The score was was then 21 to 20 It remained for lor Halfback Hamilton of the Navy Nay to decide the issue He kicked 1 the goal Army 21 21 Navy 21 Score Such w was the season of ot 1920 1020 the season superlatives of ot What will 19 1927 1027 7 be bet It also be a season of superlatives In ire mat mal attendance thrills when Harvard or hi iti meets Yale when meets Stanford when Pennsylvania plays CI cago sago or when Notre Dame W and Southern Call Call- fornia meet on Soldier field on November 20 26 For this week and next week and for tor the o or six weeks Americans next five be crowding Into college stadia or more will all United States over the to await the one big thrill game to come to their feet In the In the Touchdown I 1 l For or that's football 1 mighty roar of |