Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dave Glueck of the American: "Harvard, 14 to 7. The Big Green back Green backfield reserves run too thin, and the Crimson is ready to shoot the works this time...
...winning shot came only after Art Page, playing a sensational game at right outside, had given Harvard a 2 to 0 lead in the first half, and after Dartmouth had come back to tie up the score with goals in the middle of the third and the opening minutes of the fourth periods...
From the time of Eckhardt's goal, his ninth of the year, until the end of the game, the tide swung back the other way, and the ball spent most of the time in Dartmouth territory...
...Sophomores who will start tomorrow for the first time are Chub Peabody, Dick Pfister, and George Heiden. Peabody and Pfister are replacing Ernie Sargeant and Don Lowry as guards; Heiden will take over Joe Gardella's wing-back post, but Joe is expected to see plenty of action...
...rest of the starting team will be the same as that which lined up against Penn last Saturday, with the very major exception of Captain Torbie Macdonald. Because of Torbie's slow-healing ankle, Fran Lee with support from Ed Buckley will assume the crucial tail-back assignments. Joe Koufman and Rurgy Ayres have recovered from injuries sustained in the Quaker encounter and are expected to continue the improvement shown last week...