Kirkland Defeats Eliot 21-0, Grabs House Grid Title

For one period yesterday afternoon the cold kept Kirkland's crafty, hard-pushing football team away from the Eliot goal line, but for the rest of the game neither cold, nor mud, nor elephants could keep it from scoring three touchdowns and a thumping 21 to 0 victory in the year's most important interhouse game.

The win returned the House Football Trophy, which spent last winter in Eliot, to the Deacons, and gave them the right to face the champion of Yale, Berkeley College, in the featured intercollege game here this Friday.

Officially the teams ended the season in a deadlock for first place, each with a 6-1 record and 92 1/2 Straus Trophy points, but they agreed to have a playoff so that one champion team might face Yale and hold the football trophy.

Fullback Jerry Glynn scored first on a short plunge in the second period, and three minutes later end Joe Eaton caught a 20-yard touchdown pass from Sam Fordyce. At the end of the third quarter, tailback Willie Thompson drove over for the final score. Jacques Winter booted three perfect extra points.

Throughout the game Kirkland blocking and tackling was vastly more effective than Eliot's; the latter relied for defense on a hitherto unused 4-4-2-1 lineup with an over-and-under-shifting line, and for offense on Jim Rossiter who carried the ball on over 75 percent of the offensive plays.

Other Intramural Fronts

The undefeated Kirkland touch football team yesterday became House Champion by defeating Winthrop, 20 to 14. The Deacons will play Yale's Silliman College on Friday in the only touch game.

Matthews North and Thayer Middle square off today for the supremacy of the Yard touch football league.