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...Harvard, as has been the case since Dick Harlow took over, will again have a well drilled outfit, with more backfield strength than usual", ventures Wallace. He goes on to say that Captain Macdonald and Tom Hesley are likely to be outstanding on the team...
...depended largely on its own, crisis-trained staff for foreign coverage-lean, precise Ed Murrow in London, little INS-Man Thomas Grandin (who looks like Goebbels) in Paris, dignified William L. Shirer (who looks like H. V. Kaltenborn) in Berlin. The indefatigable Kaltenborn himself, CBS's one-man backfield during the Czech crisis, was in Europe when the current mixup broke out broadcast from London at 1:30 p.m. there on Wednesday, jumped a Clipper, broadcast from Manhattan at 6:30 next night. To spell Kaltenborn, CBS fortnight ago hired grey, smart ex-Timesstar Elmer Davis...
...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...
...Harlow system and a fleet set of backs will give Harvard an unbeatable attack, If given some measure of support by the line. Blocking is an obvious weakness of this year's backfield . . . its inexperienced line is an unknown quantity...
With the exception of one appointment, the coaching staff will remain unchanged. Under Harlow on the Varsity will be Wes Fesler in charget of ends; Lyall Clark, line; and John Wood and Vernon Struck, backfield. Skip Stahley will continue with the Yardlings, and Henry Lamar remains with the Junior Varsity. Cliff Wilson has been named to assist Lamar...