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Coach Harlow is not particularly eager to hold scrimmages with the material he has on hand; he is afraid of injuries to the boys. In fact, in one corner of the field where a backfield was merely running through signals, someone incurred a nosebleed...
...backfield, however, lacks the playing experience of the forward wall. '43 captain-elect Cleo O'Donnell is expected to re-enter College in June, and will probably share the wingback duties with Leo Flynn next fall. These two, however, are the only pre-war veterans who will be available...
Those who will be available from last year's team are Bill McDaniel at end, Chet Pierce and John Coan at tackle, Ned Dewey and Frank LeBart at guard, and Pete Harwood, Chuck Roach, Bill Jackson, Tom Tennant, Ken O'Donnell, Leo Flynn, and Bill Meilke in the backfield...
Cowen, now definitely captain-elect, comes from a family of Harvard football players. His father, Rawson Cowen, Sir., made the team in 1915; his brother Tom played in the backfield of the 1942 squad, last Crimson aggregation to meet Yale until this year's eleven...
Rose Bowl team. Last year, after a spell in the Army ended in a medical discharge, he again starred in U.C.L.A.'s backfield...