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With this star-studded backfield and a 220-lb. line, the All-Army Westerners set out this week to break up the deadly passing of Redskin Sammy Baugh. They started off like Commandos: on the second scrimmage of the game, Kimbrough ran off tackle 58 yards for a touchdown. But the powerful Redskins had too much ammunition for a bunch of soldiers with only three weeks' practice. They blasted them from the air (23 completed passes), mowed them down on the ground, kicked two perfect field goals-one from the 24-yd. line, another from the 27. Score: Redskins...
...game longer, Harlow is faced with the problem of building up virtually an entirely new team, for no longer can he boast a line composed of players like Chub Peabody, Dick Pflster, and Loren MacKinney, to mention only a few of the "seven blocks of granite," or a backfield of Lee, Heiden and McNicol...
...Forte, a recent bridegroom, Russ Stannard, Ray Guild and Gordy Lyle. Little is known about the incoming Freshman class, but one good prospect is guard Langdon Clay, who established a reputation for himself during the past season as captain of Groton. Another possibility is teammate Eris West, Clay's backfield spark...
With Freshmen eligible for the Varsity squad for the first time next fall, Coach Dick Harlow begins his most important year as Harvard football tutor with only a sprinkling of experienced men on hand. Gone are 10 of the 11 Yale game starters from last fall--the entire backfield and all but one man from the rock-ribbed line which defied all comers...
...backfield would have been built around the red-haired McNicol, and he, together with the lanky Morgan, would have given Coach Harlow an excellent passing combination. Page's value as a line backer cannot be overestimated...