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...matter appeared to be divided, however, as sources close to the team pointed out that it "just isn't done. The janitor is never promoted above the secretary." In the current Crimson coaching heresy, Boston is outranked by Bob Margarita, Hal Kopp, and Harry Jacunski, Harlow's line and backfield assistants last fall...
Publicity director Sampson has said flatly that no man at Harvard now will get the job. This statement applies principally to backfield coach Bob Margarita and Jayvee mentor Chief Boston. An important consideration, though, is Harlow's unexplored contract and Sampson's prediction that Dick will take up some job like scouting that is closely allied to football. The Old Maestro still has a domicile in Cambridge and the H.A.A. might arrange to keep his great mind in the background while easing a neophyte like Boston into a big time coaching...
Southern Cal's beefy bruisers, the West Coast champs, were not clubbed to death. They were just hoodwinked and whipsawed by Michigan's slickers. Jack Weisenburger, Crisler's sturdy spinning fullback, started most of Michigan's backfield ballet and ball-handling hocuspocus, and chewed through the center of Southern Cal's bewildered line for three Michigan touchdowns. Trigger Man Bob Chappuis (TIME, Nov. 3), who admitted later that he wasn't quite up to snuff, completed only 14 of 24 passes (two for touchdowns), passed and ran the ball 279 yards...
...studios. He felt something like security only with his father, a charming, easygoing ex-basketball star who had failed in business as a druggist and hoped his son might become a doctor. Although Gregory was a handsome boy, he tended to stand back and watch while the cheerleaders and backfield men made off with the only girls who interested him. When at last he got a girl of his own, he fell as much in love with her secure family life as with her. Hoping to get married, he threw over medicine and took a job driving an oil truck...
...squad honored their three coaches and their captain with gifts. Chief Boston received a leather travelling, bag, while backfield coach Clee O'Donnell, '46 varsity captain, line coach Eddle Davis, tackle on the '46 varsity team, and '47 J.V. captain Ozzie Keiver received silver eigarette lighters...