Kirkland Takes House-College Garlands; All Other Houses Fall Before Yale Rivals

Harvard Houses could come through only once in yesterday's games with the Yale colleges, but that once was enough for Kirkland House, the Crimson inter-mural champion, to whip the Yale champions, Berkeley, by a 21 to 12 score and bring the inter-University championship to Harvard for the coming year.

In all the other House-College football games, the Bulldogs emerged victorious, though often over stiff opposition. Yale won the touch football crown as Silliman swamped Kirkland, 60 to 0.

Kirkland 21, Berkeley 12

Keeping a muscular thumb on Berkeley College throughout the game, and scoring three touchdowns, Kirkland yesterday afternoon battered its way to the Harvard-Yale intramural championship. The game was characterized by rough, at times vicious, line play.

Starting right off in the first quarter, the Deacons carried the ball 70 yards down the field on a powerful sustained march, the first time they got hold of it. Sam Cantwell scored and the extra point was made on one of the Kirkland specialties: a fake placement, with an end run, finally ending with a pass deep into the end zone.

Berkeley bounced back, driving 50 yards to a first down on the two. There the Deacons held for two downs, finally breaking on a short end run which only barely reached the goal stripe. They blocked the extra point try, and the half-time score was 7 to 6.

As the second half began, it looked as if this were to be the final score, but suddenly Kirkland, apparently marooned in midfield on fourth down, broke loose on a 50 yard pass from Willie Thompson to Bob Snow who scored. This time the extra point came on a fake kick buck lateral around end.

After this, the game was over: both Kirkland and Berkeley scored once more, but the issue was never in doubt.

Any number of interceptions, fumbles, acrobatic pass catches, and penalties kept the game jumping all the time.

Edwards 24, Eliot 13

A powerful, speedy Jonathan Edwards eleven rolled to a 24-13 win over Eliot House yesterday. The Eliot team, suffering from the loss of its quarterback-captain Dave McGiffert, fought gamely but could not get its defenses set against the visitors' running attacks.

An early blocked punt gave the green-shirted New Havenites their first score. They broke through to down the punt on the Eliot three-yard line, and drove over from there.

Eliot drove downfield as the period ended, only to lose the ball on downs. Jonathan Edwards roared all the way back in seven plays to score on a nine-yard end sweep by Stodgehill.

On a fake punt and run play, Eliot's Jim Rossiter ripped 30 yards off the flank. Troop Wilder gained 13 more off tackle and then tossed to Roger Pugh in the end zone for a score. The visitors scored again just before the half ended on a run around right end.

The second half was more even. Jonathan Edwards scored once more, but just before the final whistle, three long passes, the last by the durable Wilder to Pugh, gave Eliot its second score. The point was kicked by Rossiter.

Davenport 13, Winthrop 0

Scoring in the first and fourth periods, Davenport College blanked Winthrop, 13-0, yesterday afternoon as the two third-place teams in each intramural league fought it out for inter-University laurels.

Winthrop exhibited a porous defense and an inability to move the ball on offense. Its most sustained drive reached the Davenport 15, mostly via the air, when the final whistle sounded. Harvey Thayer was Winthrop's most effective ground gainer.

The winners got the first break of the game when they downed one of their own punts after a Winthrop back had accidentally touched it. From the Winthrop 15, Davenport moved to the one on two plays, and from there Dick Moses bulled his way over. Bud Krch dropped back from his guard post to kick the extra point.

Interceptions foiled Winthrop's aerial attack in the second and third periods. In the fourth quarter, a Davenport interception paved the way to its second touchdown. Taking over on their own 30, Davenport scored on a fancy reverse followed by a pass from Bob Massey to Tony Hovey, who outraced two defenders to the goal line.

Trumbull 13, Lowell 0

The Trumbull eleven manipulated all the strings in the nether regions of Soldiers Field late yesterday afternoon, dangling Lowell House at the bottom of a 13 to 0 score.

The Bulls of Yale made only one display of weakness, a taunting fumble on their own 13-yard line in the second quarter. Lowell recovered for its brief moment of glory. The subsequent four plays--including three passes--gained a total of one yard.

That was Harvard's lone threat. Previously, with passer Don Wohitman as the prime mover, Trumbull had gone 45 yards in nine plays--Captain Frank Hartung scoring--and bucked across after 25 yards--Ross Cowan scoring. Harold McCauley's .500 placement record put the figures into the final order before the half.

Primarily by the efforts of punter Roger Wales, plunger Bob Woodruff, and line bulwark Tony Ripley, Lowell managed to hold the Bulls at bay throughout the second half, but the harder and faster charging Elis frustrated all attempts at a sustained offensive.

Saybrook 6, Adams 0

Saybrook College trotted out on House field number three yesterday afternoon, eager to toy with sixth-place Adams House and prove why it rated second in the Yale football league. But instead, of an adding machine score, the Yalies made it over the end zone stripe just once.

This was just once more than the Gold Coasters could manage, and Saybrook edged out a victory, 6 to 0. But in the course of yesterday's game, the most exciting of the day, Adams scared Saybrook more than once.

The Blue picked up its first tally in the second quarter, and was soon threatening again from the twenty yard line. Sandy Evans snared a Yale pass and started off for the Eli goal line. He picked up 80 yards before being pulled down on the 10 yard line. Saybrook's fine defense kept Adams from pushing across, but the Gold Coast defense matched it for the rest of the game.

The second half was see-saw, scoreless football all the way, due mainly to the line work of Adams' Frank Holt and Bill Boucher.

Calhoun 7, Dunster 6

Dunster's football team came close yesterday, but couldn't quite make the boat, as Calhoun College squeaked through with a 7-6 win in one of the closest House games of the afternoon.

Timothy Dwight 19, Leverett 0

Timothy Dwight College took advantage of lapses in the Leverett defenses yesterday to grind out a 19-0 win over the Bunnies. The visitors led 12-0 at the half, and had no trouble from there on in.

Branford 13, Dudley 0

Yale's Branford College team had a tougher fight on its hands yesterday than it had expected, but managed to grind out a 13 to 0 win over Dudley's Commuters.

Touch Football

Silliman College's touch football team just had too much for Kirkland yesterday, as the Yale champions completed wrecked their Harvard equivalent by a 60 to 0 count. In the only other touch football game of the afternoon. Yale's Timothy Dwight whipped Leverett 24 to 13.