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BAKER FIELD, NEW YORK--If last year's football records mean anything, the Columbia-Harvard football game should be the only soft spot on the Columbia schedule, a breather between Rutgers, which is out to get the Lions after suffering its lone defeat of last year at their hands, and Yale, which whipped Columbia last fall...
...departure of Ziggie Czarobski and All-America George Connor had left holes at both tackles. (Gritted Leahy: "You can't lose boys like that without having to start over.") And Purdue's 1948 Boilermakers, though still the underdogs, were a long gasp from an opening-game breather. To many experts, they looked like the strongest team on Notre Dame's ten-game schedule-which this year, for the first time since 1913, does not include Army...
...almost six furlongs set the pace, while Arcaro was content to lag behind. (Says Eddie: "Citation's a great competitive colt. He wants speed out in front of him.") On the far turn Citation overtook and easily passed Papa. Jockey R. L. Baird gave Papa a breather around the bend. Most of the fans, and Citation himself, seemed to figure that he had Papa licked. But in the stretch, Baird sent Papa up again. Said Baird later: "For a couple of seconds, I was an optimist. We got up within a half length of him. But when we came...
...Tufts by a score of 53 to 42 in Medford. That was its second and last easy game for almost two months. Since then it has been a long, hard grind through five states and eleven, games. Tonight at 8:45 o'clock the Crimson will have a third breather--the last one on the schedule...
...game is the first of three this week. Tomorrow night the Crimson tackles Fort Devens in what should be another breather, but Saturday will see a tougher West Point team at the Arena. Probable Starting Lineups HARVARD N.E. Sears lw Reid Key c J.Bell McKean or Minot rw MacKensie Greeley ld F. Bell Washburn rd Sharp Lavalle g Matthews