Word: briens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally comes around when the honeymoon is over. It was over for me in the Ritz bar one hour after the Cornell game. For the team, it wasn't a honeymoon on the long train ride from Ithaca to Cambridge. It wasn't a welcome home for Paul O'Brien, Sam Butler, and Ralph Bender when I ignored them at the Monday morning eleven o'clock because I blamed them for letting Cornell backs get through the center of the line. I forgot that they were playing their first year of varsity ball...
...next week at West Point I was cheering for O'Brien, Butler, and Bender. I out-howled the Army major next to me watching the mighty efforts of Howie Houston. I thumbed through my program to find out that number 77's name was Willie Davis. When Army center Bill Yeomans was flattened by Crimson guard John Coan, I slapped the major on the back. And at the end of the game, I saw the Crimson, standing at attention, better than the Cadets, while the Band played "Fair Harvard." I didn't gave a damn that we'd lost...
Chip Gannon and Jim Kenary joined O'Donnell in the defensive backfield with Phil Isenberg and Paul O'Brien backing up the line. Jim Noonan and Kenary handled the bulk of the passing assignments in the offensive dummy drill which followed the defensive workout against the Jayvees. It was in the dummy session that the Crimson functioned most smoothly, going through its latest cycle of plays with a reasonable degree of precision...
...offensive session was devoted mainly to men who didn't see a great deal of action against Princeton and to these who are learning now positions--Church Rocho at wingback and Jerry Kanter at tackle. Paul O'Brien took part in the scrimmage and will be able to face the Bruins, but the condition of Sam Butler and Dick Guidera is still doubtful. They were not scrimmaging yesterday. Chip-Gannon's hard running featured the offensive drill, which was otherwise good only in spots...
...Paul O'Brien, though he lost a pair of front teeth and suffered a slight concussion in New Jersey, was on hand yesterday...