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...with all due respect to the 1954 football team, the credit must go to Lloyd Jordan. It was his style of play, his confidence in this team, his emphasis on fundamentals, which won this game. This has been a difficult season for Jordan, one of transition from the Clsshy-Culver team to the present. It was a season which opened with an upset by the University of Massachusetts and defeats by Dartmouth and Columbia...
Jordan has had outstanding players at Harvard since--Buddy LeMay, Dick Clasby, John Culver. But he has always continued to emphasize the team. "Block, tackle, and run," has been a satisfactory motto on the field, but he has supplemented it with a three-point code. "First, I consider what's good for the boy. Second, what's good for the institution he represents, and third, what's good for the sport." These standards are not mere eyewash: Dick Clasby, injured in last year's Davidson game, might have made the difference in the Princeton game. But even though Clasby...
...MacDonald and Bill Volmer have forced Jordan to bring sophomore Tony Gianelly along too fast, did the Crimson look vulnerable. Probably the least experienced defensive halfback Jordan has ever used, Gianelly has been rushed into two-way service too soon, and lacks the speed of his 1953 predecessor, John Culver. Gianelly's lighter, more experienced understudy, Dick Oehmler, is a very fast starter, and hits a line very hard for 160 pounds...
After the practice of specialties, the various elevens moved up and down the field in signal drills. The first backfield was without a Clasby or Culver, but continued to show improvement...
Last week, at the big "Gundolf Send-Off," Culver City presented its visitor with a proclamation of friendship to take back to Oberhausen. Then, dressed in his best double-breasted suit. Gundolf said a few words of his own: "Everybody opened his door and I was welcomed into every house. You made...