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Tiny Charlie Yaeger was there over the weekend, wondering if "they've been hanging me in effigy down at Dillon," and happy to learn that last week someone had actually chalked in large letters on the Field House blackboard: "Remember Charlie Yaeger." Before Saturday it was hard for some Elis to think that the Blue hadn't won since manager Yaeger scored his famous extra point in the 1952 game...
Jimmy Farrell is known to most Harvard football spectators only "as the man in the white hat" who occasionally rushes onto the field to replace a ripped jersey or broken shoelace. But to generations of Crimson athletes, the equipment manager might well personify the spirit of Dillon...
Farrell's efficiency with the props for athletic contests is legendary. Neatly arranged in his big Dillon equipment room cupboards are piles of equipment ranging from shoulder pads to javelins. The machines in the adjacent laundry room roar with loads of towels, the stitcher in the shoe shop chews at a torn football shoe. Assistants dole out sweatshirts, take them back warmed with exercise, hand out towels...
Farrell, whose brother Eddie once coached track here, came to Harvard in 1928, and in 1930 became head equipment manager. A year later, he moved into the new Dillon quarters he helped design, and ever since has been an expert on sporting equipment. Trainer Jack Fadden describes Farrell's as "one of the best equipped equipment rooms in the country." His interests go far beyond simple efficiency. "His life is football," Fadden asserts. "He'll see plays the coaches sometimes don't see. He's the most enthusiastic rooter we have...
...this enthusiasm which prompted the 1953 team to vote him a football letter, and which for twenty-odd years has prompted the Yale week trimmings at Dillon. Yesterday, in the annual tradition, he set out rows of red flares to light the players' way back to the field house at the end of the last practice. As the players thundered inside to the welcome of music and "Beat Yale!" most were smiling. "You know, this stuff strikes you as sophomoric at first," one said, "but after awhile it gets to you--you know someone really wants you to beat Yale...