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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always like the schools of learning more than the football schools," declared Tom Thorp, foremost grid umpire, in an interview yesterday. "My pet game," he said, "was last year's Harvard-Yale. Harvard was the greatest coached team I ever saw. Yale must have missed a hundred tackles by half an inch...
...know," Thorp said, "that the greatest exhibition of grit I ever saw on a football field concerns a man you know. It was in 1910, and Penn State beat Pittsburgh 3-0. State had a tackle, one of the best there ever was, and he had water on the knee, had to be carried to the field. They put ice and stuff on his knee. The other team were confident that he couldn't play more than a few minutes. Well, he played an all-American game for 60 minutes. Name was Dick Harlow...
...than thirty years, but his proudest record is that of having umpired 12 Harvard-Yale games in a row. Practically all his superlatives are connected with this ivy tradition. He ranks halfback Eddle Mahan as his greatest of greats but his real favorite, the "most gentlemanly" and "nicest fellow ever," is none other than quarterback Barry Wood...
...first games he ever umpired was a clash between the Carlisle Indians and Harvard in 1908. Boasting such stars as Big Bear, Little Bear, and Rain-in-the-Face, the Indians under Pop Warner came up to Cambridge with their usual love of skullduggery. They had painted footballs on their jerseys for deceptive purposes...
Piece de resistance of this umpire, however, is his ability to nip trouble in the bud. Upon being asked what was the toughest time he ever had, he mentioned the Duke-Wake Forest game over a decade ago as being "the nearest to trouble...