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...team from New Brunswick has won four straight--three walkaways from Fordham, Lehigh, and Western Reserve, and a close 14 to 7 decision over Princeton three weeks ago. The Scarlet dropped its opener to Columbia 40 to 28. In this game, they led 28 to 27 at the three-quarter mark, after erasing a four-touchdown deficit, and felt certain of winning before Columbia rallied again...
Western Reserve of Ohio, Princeton, Fordham and Lehigh are recent Rutgers victims. The Scarlet had an easy time in each of these contests but the Princeton clash, which was won only by a 13 to 7 count...
...Fordham is through with football's big time, said its president, the Rev. Robert I. Gannon. It will still play intercollegiate games, but "does not want ever again a football team rated among the nation's ten heaviest. It doesn't do us any good financially, scholastically, socially or athletically," Father Gannon said. "We are not interested in providing business for the gambling fraternity and we are not interested in the sports writers . . . the tyrants of tyrants. We are interested in staging contests for our students, the alumni, friends and those on the subway circuit who cross...
...Madison, California's new Coach Pappy Waldorf returned to his old Midwest haunts with a surprisingly powerful pack of Golden Bears, who pawed Wisconsin to pieces, 48 to 7. In other top-heavy triumphs, Penn State handed de-emphasized Fordham its worst shellacking (75 to 0) since it started playing the game in 1883, and Harvard, playing Virginia, took its worst beating (47 to 0) under Dick Harlow's twelve-year tenure...
Rhode Island defeated traditionally potent Fordham last week and is pointing for the IC4A team championship. Spidery Bob Black, the star of the squad, is the IC4A champion. Less is known about B. U., but the Terrier Freshman team is well-padded with New England and New York schoolboy track accs...