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Chip Gannon yesterday became the first College football player to win national accolade this year when he was picked on the backfield of the Associated Press' All-Eastern second team. Four other members of the latest Harlow aggregation, Wally Flynn, Howie Houston, Emil Drvaric, and Hal Moffie, were the recipients of Honorable Mention awards...
...second team, however, there was a large sprinkling of this year's opposition. Among those chosen was Fred "Bull" Nadherny, who accompanies the Chipper in the backfield...
...backfield it was the same as in the Brown game with Chip Gannon, Hal Moffle and Jim Kenary gaining consistently, as Paul Lazzaro, the diminutive Crimson fullback, played the best game of his career at Harvard repeatedly slashing through the center of the Blue line while Prchlik and others were blocked away...
...Yale coach Howie Odell's four backfield starters, only quarterback and deadly short passer Tax Furse is completely whole. Line-bucking terror Ferd Nadherny still limps from the Princeton game last week, while halfback Art Fitzgerald suffers from a head injury received against the Tigers. The man Harlow foars most despite his questionable showing this fall is fullback Levi Jackson, who needs only one good afternoon to make football history...
...starting Bulldog line will outweigh the visitors by about 199 pounds to 196, with each man standing six feet tall or more. The backfield is a dozen pounds heavier than the Crimson and generally recognized to be Yale's real source of strength...