Word: chamberlaine
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...Though far from the best hoax in university history. Cantabrigians would rank higher the fictitious Sultan of Zanzibar (the late William Horace de Vere Cole, brother-in-law of former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain), who, in 1910, bamboozled the Vice Chancellor into entertaining him at tea. The record at Oxford appears to belong to "George Psalmanazar" (real name unknown), who palmed himself off, in 1704, as an authority on the language of Formosa, published a fake Formosan geography and history, taught at Oxford for six months, was not exposed until four years later...
Funciest shot of the day was the goal by Fred Chamberlain, an over-the-shoulder try made as he sprinted away from the nets...
...Harvard players; Bernard, Louria, Forsythe, Snow, Allen, Lange, Abbot, Estin, Gregg, Withington, Kegg, Page, Fuller, Chamberlain, Davidson, Graham...
Harvard substitutions: Louria, Allen, Page, Chamberlain, Grosz, Fuller, Scanlon, Carroll, Davis, Kegg...
...starting lineup: Bernard, g; Snow, pt; Graham, cp; Forsyth, 2d; Withington, 1d; Estin, c; Lang, 2a; Chamberlain, 1a; Abbot, oh; Gregg...