Frenzied Grid Fans Cheer Irish Victory Over Wildcats, 21 to 0 (Universal Newsreel, Nov 1932)

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The original release sheet reads: 1. FRENZIED GRID FANS CHEER IRISH VICTORY OVER WILDCATS, 21 TO 0: SOUTH BEND, IN - Notre Dame football machine, in “high” again, rides roughshod over Northwestern, its historic rival. Ramblers ring up a touchdown in the first minute of play by that infrequent marvel of the game – a run-back to the goal from kick-off, with Melinkovich electrifying the 42,000 rooters by 98-yard dash. 2. BULLDOG AND TIGER BATTLE TO 7 - 7 TIE: PRINCETON, NJ - Ancient gridiron foes fight to a draw before 45,000 noisy rooters. For three periods, battle is on even terms, and then Bob Lassiter of Yale uncorks a 37-yard heave that sends the Blue stands crazy and paves the way for a score. Princeton, halted time and time again almost at the goal line after terrific drives, takes the air in final minutes of play. Three thrilling throws – the last a bullet pass from Kadlic to Ken Fairman – do the trick and Old Nassau deadlocks the struggle. 3. CHILD ARMY INVOKES DEITY’S AID TO ABATE INFANT DEATH RATE: SHIMADA, JAPAN - In a picturesque plea to their gods to bestow good health on babies of Nippon, youngsters take part in nation’s greatest religious ceremony, the Obi festival. Under guidance of Shinto priests, thousands of boys and girls, garbed in colorful costumes, enact age-old pilgrimage to nearest shrine. Rites form one of the finest tributes to motherhood known in any country. ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS: 4. INSULL, JR., RETURNS; MUM ON DAD’S PLIGHT/CHICAGO, IL - Samuel Insull, Jr., arriving here from Paris, runs a gauntlet of reporters seeking comment as to the predicament of his father, now awaiting extradition from Greece to answer charges in Cook County of wrecking the giant public utilities combine bearing his name. 5. WEDDING RUMORS FLY AS INGRID GOES HOME/CROYDON, ENGLAND - Sweden’s Princess takes off for Brussels in a big transport plane on her way back to Stockholm after a short visit with her grandfather, the Duke of Connaught, who sees her off. All Britain is agog over her stay here, linking it with the matrimonial outlook of the Prince of Wales. 6. FAMED ELEPHANT INN HAS GOLDEN JUBILEE/MARGATE CITY, NJ - Fifty years is not an advanced age for the average pachyderm, but for a tin one that has been buffeted by South Jersey shore front gales, it’s quite a long time. Constructed in 1882 as a beach resort novelty, it still attracts tourists by land and by sea. “Jumbo” is 65 feet high, 38 feet long and 80 feet around the middle. It can be seen for eight miles. A six-room apartment is included in the mammoth body and the howdah is large enough for a dance floor. 7. DUPED HUNGER ARMY DISBANDS ON PLEDGE OF GOVERNMENT AID: LONDON, ENGLAND - Spurred on by Communist organizers, idle Britishers congregated here make one more attempt at mass demonstration, this time at the base of Nelson’s statue in Trafalgar Square. Despite the assembling of several thousand unemployed and fiery speeches by Red agitators, the “bobbies” keep the situation well in hand and quickly frustrate an attempt to move on Parliament. A few minor brushes between the blue-coats and the marchers result in a score of injured and a number of arrests, but the majority break ranks and leave for their homes, assured of help from the public purse at an early date, thereby ending Britain’s worst labor threat in a decade. 8. NEW WORLD’S RECORD CREATED IN THRILLING CORN-HUSKING FINALS: GALVA, IL - Carl Seiler, Knox County south-paw and State Champion, wins the 9th annual mid-west farm Olympics, before a gallery estimated at 50,000, by shucking 36.89 bushels of corn in eighty minutes. Nine States are represented in the contest, which has become a national event. Stalking down the rows, the competitors achieve the remarkable speed of from 40 to 50 ears a minutes. Held on the rich Peterson farm in Henry County, the corn-belt Derby is the outstanding title battle of agrarian America. 9. VILLAGES DESERTED AS VICIOUS STORMS HIT ATLANTIC COAST: CHARLESTON, RI - Worst gale in 20 years lashes North-eastern seaboard of United States, sixty-mile wind whipping seas and toppling shorefront homes into waters. Thousands of dwellers driven inland. Many left shelter-less, damage runs into millions. New York City streets, Long Island and Staten Island resorts inundated, Midland Beach, families marooned in middle of watery waste, forced to flee their abodes in rowboats. (LOCAL – CANADA) LEAFS & BRUINS OPEN SEASON/TORONTO.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library