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...recovered fumble and Jack Comeford's 60-yard touchdown pass to substitute end Gordy Lyle, gave the Crimson a 19 to 14 victory. Lyle, who came racing onto the field for the final offensive play of the game, caught the ball on the Princeton 20 and outran two defenders to score. Bob Perina, now with the Brooklyn Dogers, had led the highly favored visitors to a 14 to 0 lead at the half with a crushing passing attack...
Amid the drudgery and Freshman jitters at November hours came the great moment of the season as Comeford-to-Lyle did the trick for Harvard in the closing seconds of the Princeton tussle as the 19-14 win subdued a favored Tiger eleven...
Absent from the Crimson ranks will be a number of ex-gridders now in service. Foremost of these is captain-elect Cleo O'Donnell, who entered active duty in the Marines yesterday morning. Other moleskinners now in uniform include Jack Fisher, Charley Gudaitis, Pete Garland, Jack Comeford, Lee Flynn, Dick Anderson, and Len Cummings...
...playing ranks have been similarly depleted. Aside from the '43 men who would not be out in normal times, captain-elect C Cleo O'Donnell, Jack Fisher, Charley Gudaitis, Pete Garland, Jack Comeford, Leo Flynn, Dick Andersen and Len Cummings are left...
With the same grit and crude determination that resulted in last October's Comeford to Lyle miracle at the expense of another Tiger team, Earl Brown's rags-to-riches quintet never stopped fighting, running, scrambling. Not until they had shown their Nassau "superiors" who was boss under the backboard, and out in the keyhole, where the pivot and jump shots of Burditt, Dean Hennessey, Hugh Hyde, and George Dillon put Princeton's pot-shooters to shame. shame...