Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the half we are led to believe there was a fight talk. Harlow decided to insert burly bucker Ben Smith to improve on the none too deceiving spinning fakes of Joe Gardella. Still Smith was not able to work any wonders for a little while, for Princeton had obviously scouted Harvard's spinners down to a fine point...
Blind horses are a burden on their owners : like some blind people, they develop neuroses, become hesitant and suspicious, refuse to move about. They are usually "destroyed." Last week the Horse Show committee of Nebraska's famed Ak-Sar-Ben celebration brought to Omaha for a personal appearance a blind horse named Elmer Gantry, who was remarkable not simply because he was still alive but also because he had been taught to jump...
...afternoon, with darkness setting in, and all the glamor of the half-light and the white ball spurring them on, the top teams ran through a really jazzed-up signal drill. Joe gardella continued to alternate from wingback to bucking back. When he worked as wingback, big Ben Smith was the bucker. On the "B" eleven Ray Jones, elevated since Bob Burnett's ankle injury, took over the wingback post...
Gardella will start against Princeton at fullback, says Harlow, but if Torbert Macdonald needs relief he will switch to wing and Ben Smith will come in at fullback. Last week Macdonald went for the full 60 minutes; perhaps he can do it again. At any rate Burnett will be held out only a week with his leg injury...
...Bill Coloman, and backs Cliff Wilson, Frank Foley, Torby MacDonald, and Joe Gardella made up the "A's". The "B" boys included ends Gene Lovett and Don Daughters, tackles George Downing and Mose Hallett, guards Don Lowry and Tony Staruski, and backs Chief Boston, Austie Harding, Bob Burnett, and Ben Smith (alternating with Mike Cohen...