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...contenders for first-rate billing until the great team of 1941, the big football revues always gave Harlow credit for "well-drilled teams," capable of dark-horsing a way to the top-given breaks and a spark. In 1941, the powder barrel went off, and behind All-American Center Chub Peabody, the team made up in defense what it lacked in offense, catapulting the Crimson into the big time. Dreams of a football renaissance in Soldiers Field ended, however, with Pearl Harbor...
That was the year of Captain Joe Gardella, Franny Lee, and Charley Spreyer, when the blossoming line which featured Chub Peabody, Loren MacKinney, Dick Pfister, Tom Gardiner, and Vern Miller was coming into its own. Remnants of the class of 1945--and there are many--will be eager to relate the 14 to 0 pasting handed the Bulldogs in 1941, when Peabody, later to be named on everybody's All-America list, played the entire game with charley-horses in both legs, and still was the bulwark of the Crimson forward wall...
High spots of the evening were talks by "Chub" Peabody, Chief Boston, and Cheerleader Jerry Spear who explained the new card system that will be used in the stands today to insure greater cheering uniformity. A mild ripple was provided by Captain Cleo O'Donnell, who modestly admitted that "as for being an inspirational leader, it's pretty easy when you have a great football team behind...
...Endicott "Chub" Peabody, 2nd '42, and Chief Boston will give pep talks from the steps of the Athletic Building, and the cheerleaders will explain a system of flash cards that will see their first use in the Yale fracas...
Lieutenant Commander Lyal W. Clark, known to local football fans as the coach who turned out Chub Peabody et al., returned to Dick Harlow's staff yesterday as a general assistant and trouble-shooter for the balance of the season...