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...Western Conference, last year's three champions started off well. Michigan mangled Michigan State, 26 to 0. Purdue pounded Kansas State 29 to 13. After a scoreless first half against Coach Frank Carideo's Missouri Tigers, Rentner. Fengl and Potter turned on Northwestern's backfield power for four touchdowns...
...campus, he appears in yellow corduroys, a virile sweater. Twenty years old, one-time star athlete of the Joliet (111.) High School, he belongs to Sigma Nu, studies in the School of Education, plans to make dentistry his hobby, because he enjoys pulling teeth. In important games, Rentner loses his elaborate carelessness, tries furiously to justify the pseudonym he likes best: "Flying Dutchman.'' Last year he was noted mainly as a passer. This year his open field running against Ohio State and Illinois made him star of the best backfield in the Big Ten, perhaps the best...
...Rentner helped Northwestern back up its claim to this year's Big Ten championship by smothering Illinois 32 to 6, with four touchdowns in the first quarter, one in the last...
...point for every thousand spectators, won by 35 to 0 -the worst beating an Illinois team coached by Robert Zuppke had ever sustained. Northwestern, favored for this year's Big Ten championship, bottled Ohio's best backs, gained 371 yd. from scrimmage, won, 10 to 0, with Rentner's touchdown, Olson's extra point and field goal. Minnesota swamped Iowa 34 to 0 and Indiana, in a feebly patronized game, beat Chicago...
...minutes after they started to play in Evanston, Northwestern had three touchdowns against Nebraska, two by Ernest ("Pug") Rentner, one by Ken Meenan. Nebraska struggled hard for the last three periods, scored in the second. Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone & party, who were booed from the stadium after the third quarter, thus saw all the scoring-Northwestern 19, Nebraska...