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...rush to the Harvard bandwagon has been terrific. Last Saturday caused more split-second somersaults than have been seen since last June when Hitler walked into Russia. The number one example of this is David Francis Egan '23, whose acid comments about the state of Harvard football during the era of Gladchuck and O'Rourke, were not meant for publication in the Alumni Bulletin. Following the Dartmouth victory Egan started his flip-flop, and after the Navy deadlock he reached down into his asbestos-lined dictionary to pull out words and phrases not used since B.C.'s adventures with Georgetown...
...Dave Egan, Record columnist, picks Harvard to lose a moral defeat, instead of winning a moral victory. "But there is always the possibility that Harlow will think himself right into an immoral victory, as distinguished from a moral one. He has been saving up his entire offense for this very afternoon...
...Star to its present 167,400, made it a lusty rival of the powerful Post-Dispatch, and in doing so had become a newspaper legend. Managing editor since 1914, he made his reputation in the early '20s, when he exposed the notorious Hogan gang, the Egan Rats, the bloody Italian gang called the Green Ones...
...Dave Egan of the Boston, Record: "Amateur is amateur, and never the twain shall meet. Intellectual dishonesty met on the gridiron and the result was a whopping victory for Harvard, Bill (Bleeding Heart) Bingham, and Master Tom Stephenson...
Blowtorch Egan calls on Harvard to come out from behind false whiskers by either "abolishing intercollegiate football, as the Intellectually honest Dr. Robert M. Hutchins did at the University of Chicago or subsidize football players." He continues with an elaborate explanation of how Bill Bingham is the boss of every Dean of admissions in the Ivy League, a fotball Czar comparable to Judge Landis in baseball. Egan winds up his little dissertation by tacking that same confusing monicker on Boston College. It is an "Intellectually honest institution", says Egan, comparing it with Dr. Hutchins and Chicago. That simile...