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...Yalemen made merry at the first "Nick Roberts' Old Yale Barn Party" staged since 1933 after the custom inaugurated by Yaleman Nicholas Roberts, onetime head of defunct S. W. Straus & Co., Manhattan bondhouse. The Yalemen cheered peptalks by Football Coach Raymond ("Ducky") Pond, Captain Lawrence Morgan ("Larry") Kelley and Captain-elect Clinton Frank, sang Boola, Boola under the direction of Radio Singer Lancelot ("Lanny") Ross, 1927 Yale track captain. The Montclair Yale Bowl awarded annually to the Yaleman "who has made his Y in life," first won in 1926 by Pennsylvania Railroad's late President William Wallace Atterbury...
...Captain-elect Charles Russell Allen has won, deservedly, a position of leadership among his teammates. His fine qualities as a football player are too well-known among this year's pigskin fanciers to call for reiteration. His unanimous election as captain is self-evident testimony of his personal popularity. Letterman in three sports, President of his class and member of the Union Committee while a Freshman, present member of the Student Council, he proves that athletic accomplishments may be united with others of a different kind...
...captain and on the coach of a football team rests the responsibility of creating that intangible spirit known as morale. The captain must be, as well, a driving, courageous player. All Harvard knows that Captain Gaffney excelled in both of these "assignments". And all Harvard can expect that Captain-elect Allen will creditably fill the large and capable shoes of Mr. Gaffney...
...general college tennis and squash lettermen readily adapt themselves to the celloloid spheroid and paddle. An exception to the rule is found in the case of James J. Fuld '37, captain-elect of this year's tennis team. Jim was handicapped at plus 13 at the outset, but, although he has not yet acquired a weekly title, is said, by competent observers, to be rapidly improving...
chief upset of tournament was fall of James J. Fuld '37, captain-elect of the Cowlesmen and top-seeded in this affair. Casey Wynn '40 disposed of Fuld in three sets in the third round, in the fourth he himself met a 6-0, 6-1 defeat at the hands of Howard P. Kahn 1L. The latter, of Michigan racket fame, was in turn vanquished by the invincible Burt...