USC at Notre Dame

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  Douglas daily dispatch, November 27, 1927, page 5

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  to cross the Cadet goal line in five thrusts from the three yard mark. This was the most heroic defense stand of the game. Twice Clifton ploughed into the mased forwards barely making yard each time Lloyd took turn at tackle with only foot to show for his plunge Then Clifton made the final thrust, only to be piled up in the swirling mass with the goal inches away. The game, brilliant but not as spectacular a pageant as it was a year ago in Chicago, was witnessed by the largest crowd it has ever attracted in the east, as great an assemblage as ever saw. football battle in New York. Secretaries Will bur and Davis, Mayor Jimmy Walker, high officers of both branches of the service mingled with thousands of fans, forming backgrounds that I had their most colorful features in the grey-coaed corps of cadets and the blue-coated brigade of midshipmen. Cheers roared and echoed from one side of the field to the other as the rival admirals and generals of the future We’d for vocal hon6rs. But the cadets had the last cheer The line-ups and summary: Army: Harold, le.; Sprague, It,; Hammack, lg.; Hall, c.; Seeman, rg.; Perry, IT.; Born, re-; Nave, qb.; eagle lhb.; Wilson (captain), RIB; Murrell fb. Navy: Roane le.; Bagdanovitch, It,; Bruke, lg.; Hardin, c., Woerner, rg.; Giese, IT.; Smith, re-; Hannegan (captain), qb.; Lloyd, lhb.; Clifton rhb.; Ransford, fb Score by periods: N@%S@s ........,....................O 0 2 .O.a7- 6 Army ..........,........-.......... 0 0 IA Ola Navy scoring: Touchdown, Roane; point after touchdown, Hannegan drop kick). Safety against MurrelD Army scoring: Touchdowns, Wilson q; points after touchdown, eagle 2 drop kicks. Substitutions; Army: Saunders for Perry, Brertnal for Harbold, Hutchinson for eagle, Elias for Sprague Parson for Hall, Dibb for Hammack Meehan for Nave. Substitutions, Navy: Coffman for Ransford, Parish for Hannegan, Taylor for Sloane, Beans for Taylor Wood for Hardin, Wilson for Giee. Officials: Referee, w. G. Rowell Swarthmore; umpire, A. H. Sharpe Yale; linesman, H. R. Heneage, Dart mouth; field Judge, c. G.. Eckles | Washington and jefferson. ‘Notre Dame: Voedisch, le; Miller, 1t / Smith 1O i0ly rg; Poliskey, rt; Walsh, re; Riley, OBJ Dahman, lib; Flanagan, RIB; Wynne fb Score by periods. Notre Dame ........7 0 o o. Southern California 80 0 0 Oh Notre Dame scoring: Touchdown Dahman Point after touchdown | Dahman. Southern California scoring: Touch. down Saunders. Officials: Referee, Varnell, Chicago umpire, Schommer, Chicago; fielc | judge, Griffin, Iowa; head linesman Eckersall, Chicago. ! In the Trojan locker room after tlnt game, there was considerable discus. sion regarding. the disputed play wher went for Notre Dame touch back, al though some thought it should have been a safety. | Coach Jones said ct wasn’t an official, and what the officials rule stands If Riley had control ofthe ball, it was a safety; il he didn’t have control of it, it was q touchback 1t was a great game. don’t think either team showed any ! strong SllDeriOritV” Walter Eckersall, an umpire who served as lineman today, wrote o fthe disputed play: “Riley of Notre Dame leaped into the air in an effort to catch the pass ed ball. A fraction of second after he caught it he was tackled by a Trojan player and the bali struck the end zone and rolled over the end line A touchback always results when the ball on any incompleted forward pass strikes the ground in the end zone. The officials who we’re on top of. the play ruled that Riley did not have the ball under his control”

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  Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, November 27, 1927, page 1

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  HARD SMASHES VICTORY TONOTREDAME California Defeated By Score of 7–⁠6 in Epochal Battle on Sol diers Field CHICAGO, Ill.,, Nov. 26.-fP-Al California is sad and dread tonight. The Troians Of the University of Southern California. coming cut or the west undefcated, lost d heart breaking one hour football game TO Notre Dame on Soldier Field this afternoon, 7 70 s, before 113,, 900 spectators. the greatest throng that ever witnessed a gridiron struggle IN America. The victory was a repetition Of the Notre Dame triumph Of a year ago. when Rockne’s ramblers snatched 4 1919 victory over the Trojans, AZ Los Angeles. The Trojans in a smashing. ire sistable attack, scored early in the first period, with Captain Morley Drury, their brilliant quarterback, and candidate for all-American hon ors, tossing a forward pass 70 Rus sell Saunders that resulted in the touchdown. When Drury sent his toe crashing against the bali IN an attempt 70 add the extra point. Chilly Walsh, the Notre Dame right end, hurled himself against the ball, and blocked It, giving Notre Dame the break it needed. “A few minutes later. In the same period, Natre Dame found its chance tc score, opened up with ia aerial shots and tossed . pass across the goal with Charley Riley. the little quarterback heaving the ball 10 Ray Adham. Then with the Nctre Dame line holding like a stone wall, Adham stepped back and successful booted a drop kick for the added point Civ ing Metre Dame its edge and finally victory. Thereafter for the remain ing three periods. the fighting Metre Dame team, with frequent shifts In the lineup. set up a defense that held the coast invaders in check, stopped the running attack OF Drury, and twice nipped surges that threat ened their goal line. Individually the game resulted In q thrilling offensive battle between Drury and Christy Flanagan. Notre Danes great half back. Flanagan. playing his last game Tor Metre Dame, overshadowed NIL his previous sensational perform Enccs. splitting the line with his powerful thrusts. and shooting around the ends for long gains. In The first tares cf the battle. Flanagan, taking q backward pass, smashed through. the Troiars for ward wall repeatedly. Drury, a combination Of Red Grange. Herb Joesting ard Bennie Friedman. n little Bit of each, car ried the hrunt Of Southern Cali fornia’s attack. playing himself al most 20 the point ar exhaustion. Drury. carrying the ball four cut Of five times N the first half. spent his strength before three periods were finished. He missed the aid ar Harry Edelson, and Don Williams in carry inr the ball. Edelson was forced out Of the rame because a. injuries and viii liams was left home in California, nursing injuries. The tremendous crowd witnessing fodav’s game surpassed the record breaking attendance az 10000 that turned out for the nrmy-navy classic just a year ago. Although ne championship. sectional or otherwise was involved. no football game ever played in Chicago attracted 50 much attention

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  Imperial Valley press, California, November 26, 1927, page 1

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  TROJANS DEFEATED BY IRISH One Point HOOdO Clings To Jones’ Men As NOtre Dame Wins 7 to 6. EVENLY MATCHEH tumble Loses Game For CalifOrnians As Goal Line Is Crossed. CHICAGO, Nov. 26-Notre Dame : fighting Irish eked ont to & vic tory over the University of South this afternoon. Both teams scored in the first quarter and the game thereafter resolved itself into a strategic football II duel with neither the Trojans nor the Irish having decided advantapc. The one point which Dahman garnercd with a place kick after he had scored the Notre Dame touch down, proved to be the winning mar gin. The game opened with the Troians flashing down the field in IA fast drive for the Irish goal line after their line had forced Notre Dame TO punt following the kickoff. Taking the ball on the Irish 40 yard line Coach Howard Jones mon fesorted to straight football for two plays and then Drurv, -. c. all American back, dashed % yards toward the goal line. Saunders then picked Drury’s pass out OF the ar and stumbled over the Irish goal line for the first touch down of the game. Drury missed = place kick for the extra point. Coach Roekne’s regulars flashed irto form late in the quarter after Riley had been downcd on his own Il yard line. Flanagan and Collins, using straight football tactics com lined with n short pass, made 20 yards. Then Riley threw a long pass t. Dahman who scampered across the Trojan goal line. Dahman kicked goal for the seventh point-thc mar gin of victory. Several times during the game the CaEfornians were in scoring dis tince but the Irish seemed able at all times to summon enough strength II To stop them. The worst scare TO Notre Dame rootcrs came in the third period when Erury tossed a pass to SaunIcrs from the – yard line and the latter fumblcd the ball as he step Icd over the Irish goal. \ mad scramble followed but Not re Zane players recovered and the play was ruled n touchback. First Quarter Notrc Dame won the toss and receivcd the kickoff at the south end of the field. Elder took the kick off and came back 10 years to his ~ yard line. Two tries at right by Elder failed to gain. Elder punted out of bounds on his own 40 yard line, where the Trojans put the ball in play. Drury slid off right tackle for five yards on the first play. The Trojan captain was stopped on “A similar try after yard gain. Drury ran right end for % yards being run out of bounds on the Irish IL yard line. Edclson went between the left guard and center for four yards and Notre Dame took time out. The Irish Iine stiffened and stopped the Trojan captain without gain on the next rush. Drury then threw forward pass

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  New Britain herald, Connecticut, November 30, 1927, page 10

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  ARGUMENT OVER GRID DECISION Southern California Claims Score Should Have Been 8 to ‘ Chicago. Nov. 50 tPl-Ths touch back play of the Notre Dame Southern California. football game last Saturday has added another controversial chapter to the colorful history of Soldier Field stadium, scene of record breaking crowds and the Hong count” given Champion Gene Tunney. The Southern Californians. when they landed home yesterday. were quoted as saying that the play should have been called a safety, which would have given them ah S-7 victory over Notre Dame. In stead the touchback decision of un- pire John Schommer. former Uni versity of Chicago star. sent them westward with a 7–⁠6 defeat. The little Notre Dame quarterback Riley, intercepted a Trojan pass near his goal line, but was tackled and lost the ball, which was recovered back of the Notre Dame goal line by three Troians. Schommer called IL touchback on the ground that Riley had not gained control of the ball before hard tackle made him tumble. Major John l.. Griffith, western conference athletic Comnlssloner, several Big Ten football officials and other sports authorities agreed with Schommer’s decision, but there were also those who maintained that Riley held the ball in his hands long enough to say he had control of 1t. All agreed he had not drawn it tight In his arms before 1t flew out of his grasp as the tacklers hlt him. Schommer’s statement on the play. after the game, was: T was within a few yards of Riley when he intercepted the Southern California pass. l never was more on top of a play in my life. l saw him grab the ball, juggle it, and lose it when tackled. “The rules say that befoer ball may be considered to be fun bled, the player must have had possession and control. l couldn’t rule that he fum bled. A touchback was the only interpretation that I could make” Schommer said that Field Judge Jack “Pinkey” Griffith. Pacific coast conference official, agreed with him on the ruling.

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Officially, Notre Dame leads 51–⁠37–⁠5; as played, 53–⁠38–⁠5 in 96 meetings, counting the 94 since this game.