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...McCurdy will be plagued with weaknesses in the middle and distance running events, where Yale's Bobby Mack holds a definite edge. McCurdy admits that the Crimson's lack of running depth "presents a real problem," but hopes to score heavily in the field events to off-set the Bulldog advantage...
...second half, the Crimson kicked the Bulldog in the teeth on a cold and bitter afternoon in the Stadium. While vendors hawked tea in the stands, Bill Taylor confused the Yale stalwarts again and again with magnificent punting under heavy Eli pressure, dazzling running, and general excellence. A Yale touchdown, achieved by running a punt back to the end zone while the Harvard team blocked itself off the field, gave the game a sense of drama, but Harvard's line, by then strong and experienced, had too much finesse and skill to be fooled by Yale's generally feeble offensive...
When John Pringle stepped up on the block, the Bulldogs gasped in amazement. The Crimson junior had already won two exhausting races and hadn't swum the breaststroke all year. He was still too much for the vaunted Yurow, however, touching out the Bulldog by a tenth of a second...
...ninth ranked man on the squad, John Francis, who emerged as the hero of the match. With the team score tied at 4-4, Francis trailed 11-6 in his final game. While Yalies went wild in anticipation of victory, Francis rallied with nine straight points, silencing the Bulldog barks...
...hours playing the match game next door at Bleeck's, which in those days was noted for its good Dutch food and Gemütlichkeit. When his reporters came back to report failure on an assignment, he wordlessly drew from his desk drawer a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, bulldog pipe and magnifying glass, and snooped around the floor on his knees, as if searching for a lost trail. To an upstate Tribune correspondent whose copy stood in sore need of punctuation, Walker sent a full page of commas. His ways were not without their effect...