FOOTBALL ABANDONED: While the summer session was yet in its infancy, Mr. James J. Needles, director of athletics, shocked followers of the Dons by announcing that the University of San Francisco had dropped intercollegiate football and would not field a team in the fall. /Reasons for the first lapse in football on the hilltop since its inception more than twenty-five years ago were many. Firstly, last year's team had left only five men on the hilltop. These were Tate Landry the 230 pound Louisiana tackle, John "Butch" Parker, a 200 lbs. all-West tackle from Arizona who was the lone Don in the East- West game and was a senior, Don Campbell freshman halfback from Ohio, Johnny Orsini, pint-sized quarterback, going into his Sophomore year, and Wally Wellbrinck giant tackle from San Francisco. The remainder of a team would have had to be drawn from the student body, but when only 17 reported to official practice in the fall, the idea was abandoned (TheFoghorn).
