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...last quarter. Southern California had the ball on Notre Dame's 16-yd. line -the result of a penalty on Notre Dame for interference, plus a lateral pass and plays against the left side of the Notre. Dame line, plus a stunning burst of determination. Gaius ("Gus") Shaver, Southern California's 185-lb. towheaded quarterback from Azusa, Calif., made a first down on the 16-yd. line. After Sparling made an 11yd. gain around left end, Shaver smashed through to touchdown behind a massed shift...
Halfway through the quarter, another penalty for interference, on a pass from Mohler to Shaver, gave Southern California the ball on Notre Dame's 24-yd. line. In three plays Mohler & Shaver carried the ball to the loyd. line for another first down. This time Mohler dropped back and threw a lateral to Shaver who, circling his own left end, made 10 yd. and a touchdown, dragging a Notre Dame tackier across the goal line. When Baker, whose try for extra point after Southern California's first touchdown had been blocked, kicked the goal, it made the score...
...that in its remaining games against Iowa and Indiana, Northwestern could score almost at will or at the whim of its capricious, brilliant backs. A half-million people watched the dozen biggest games of the week. Largest crowd of the year-100,000-saw Southern California's Mohler, Shaver, Pinckert and Musick, the best backfield on the Pacific Coast, smother Stanford at Los Angeles, 19 to o. With 4! min. left to play. Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Quarterback Barry Wood, who had been playing dunderhead foot- ball all afternoon, threw a 40-yd. pass to a point...
...Angeles, 50,000 people saw an extraordinarily powerful Southern California attack, headed by Gaius Shaver and Orv Mohler who made two touchdowns each, mow and shave Oregon...
Fifty thousand spectators at Los Angeles saw the Oregon State Beavers gnawed by Orv Mohler who made one touchdown, trimmed by Gaius Shaver who made three, hammered by Ernie Smith who kicked a field goal, trampled by Southern California's Trojans...