Football: Nov. 19, 1928

> There are rare moments in sport when a game becomes more than a game; when chance permits a climax beyond the ability of art, to arrange a climax remote from the pattern of the game and in itself glorious or sad. Such a moment occurred last week at the end of the football game in which Notre Dame played against the Army.

Notre Dame has a famous football coach, Knute Rockne, who never turns out feeble teams. Yet he has off-seasons and he remarked last week, "I am not worrying this year—I only worry when I have a good team and expect to see it win." Rockne moved about the country followed not by one Notre Dame team but by several; he arrived in Manhattan with three last week and sent one of them onto the field in the Yankee Stadium where 80,000 people were watching, to play against the Army. Notre Dame has lost two games this year; the Army has beaten Harvard and Yale but no team has beaten the Army.

Notre Dame looked frail; the Notre Dame cheering section was weak, while two thousand soldiers wrapped in their grey capes roared. They expected to see famed Chris Cagle, the Army halfback, rush through the little men in front of him. Instead, whenever he took the ball, a flock of Notre Dame players started at him like birds which he could not brush away. In the second half it was not Cagle's brilliance but the slow rush of the whole team that brought the ball up the field for a touchdown; somehow Notre Dame struggled back again with it and scored six points to tie. Then at the end of the last quarter Rockne sent in a substitute lineman called Johnny O'Brien, who caught a pass on the goal line and made the score 12 to 6 in favor of Notre Dame. The teams lined up for the kickoff; there was a minute to play.

Cagle caught the kick-off and ran 60 yards; he carried the ball through the line for 15. It moved to the 20-yard line; to the five-yard line; to the one-foot line. Then from the sidelines of the dark quiet field the timekeeper blew his whistle.

> Maryland, a supposed set-up chosen for the week before the Princeton game, smashed Yale 6—0, and smashed also Johnny Garvey, Yale's star halfback.

> Navy tied Michigan 6—6.

> Penn played Harvard on a slow field; but the Penn team was mightier than the sward and won 7—0.

> Carnegie Tech beat Georgetown 13—0.

> A short pass from California's big Barr to Eisan beat Washington 6—0.

> Herbert Hoover watched Stanford beat Santa Clara in Palo Alto 31—0.

> Georgia Tech, which beat Notre Dame, beat Vanderbilt 19—7.

> Mayes McLain, a redskin Indian, made a touchdown in Columbus, Ohio; and Iowa beat Ohio State 14—7.

> Unbeaten teams at this point: Iowa, Carnegie Tech, Georgia Tech, Florida. Tennessee, Southern California (one tie), Wisconsin (one tie), Princeton (two ties).