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Show VARSITY FOOTBALL Although the Redskins bolted through their 1931 conference schedule without so much as being pushed, they met their match twice during the campaign, losing two games, both intersectional. Washington bested the Utes, 7-6, and Oregon State College handed them a 12-0 defeat-otherwise the Redman had a very fair season, winning six R. M. C. games and an intersectional affair with College of Idaho, 52-0. The 1931 grid log reveals that the Utes ran up 301 points as compared with 31 for the opposition. Alabama with 360 markers and Tulane with 350 were the only other teams on the national football front to oustrip the Braves in offensive power. Michigan, Cornell, Tennessee, and Columbia were the only major teams of the nation to keep the enemy's scoring under 30 points. The 1931 team was a typical Armstrong machine-full of fight-possessed of a diversified attack that lent itself readily either to open football, passing, or hard line smashing- dogged on defense, and always - victory-conscious. Armstrong's ability to make his men intent on victory was evident all season, the reserves showing quite as much fight as the regulars. The Redskin forward wall ranged in average weight from 185 to 190 pounds, depending on substitutions, while the backfield tipped the scales at close to 170 pounds. Christensen, Clark, Walling, Johnson, Tedesco, and Croft made all-conference berths. Front row: Coombs, Sleator, MacDonald, Hartenstein, Bischoff, Guhin, Aldous, Reading, Luce, Stevens, Smolka. Second row: Leary, McDonald, Welch, Tedesco, Beckstead, Richins, Fetzer, Christensen, Westphal, Elliott, Sonne, Davies, Chez, Couch. Third row: Armstrong, Nielson, Croft, Larsen, Stevens, Rose, Woods, Showell, Beuhner, Knight, Puzey, Smith, Day, Peterson. Fourth row: Moss, Clark,' Howard, Ostler, Carlston Larsen, Johnson, Walling, Bridge, Moone, Brown. Page One Hundred Ninety-eight |