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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Dick Harlow will this fall face the toughest assignment of his six year sojourn at Cambridge when football practice begins September 15. Six lettermen, only three of whom were regulars, remain from last year's Big Three Championship squad. To complete his team, Harlow must fall back on normal Junior Varsity and a better than average sophomore delegation...
Likely to team with the veteran Don Lowry at guard is Ernie Sargeant. The latter has been a reserve back for two years, and his only line experience was during spring practice. Dick Pfister, Endicott Peabody, and Jim Grunig will undoubtedly be called upon for considerable playing service as guards...
Relatively stronger than the line, the backfield will be packed with offensive power, with three starting triple-threat men. Macdonald runs equally well to the right or left, is a good passer, and a better than average punter. Harlow intends to switch Torbie from wing-back to tail-back this year...
...Gardella was discovered last year as a suitable successor to Vernon Struck at full-back. Harlow's deceptive offense depends on the spinner, and it is on this post that Dick and his backfield assistants Johnnie Wood and Struck will devote a lot of attention and worry. Sophomore Fred Spreyer, who is at present slated for the wingback berth, may quite possibly switch positions with Gardella. On Frazier Curtis falls the nearly impossible job of filling the combined shoes of Cliff Wilson and Chief Boston as blocking back. As leader of the interference and key man on the defense, this...
...giant weighing almost 200, began translating the plates.* He dictated to a schoolteacher named Oliver Cowdery. God, said Joe, had revealed that Cowdery was to put the revelations into fit English. To a prosperous farmer named Harris he transmitted God's revelation that he was to back their publication. (Meanwhile he had convinced a pretty, standoffish girl named Emma that God said she was to marry...