Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are plenty of towels of all shapes and sizes at Soldiers Field these days, but you won't find any of the crying variety. That's why Coach Valpey refuses to discuss the seven Sophomores who played first string Freshman ball last fall and have now dropped out of the picture...
Balancing this wholesale loss is the presence of several capable athletes who weren't around last fall. Tall Tom Guthrie, a 230-pound transfer student from Notre Dame (he played first-string end) has been moved to tackle. Guard Jack Coan started five games for Harvard's informal Varsity back in 1945, and now shapes up as one of the starting guards...
...Pete Petrillo, wingback Nick Athans, and quarterback Hugh Edmonds, all veterans of former Crimson Varsity and Jayvee elevens, are now back following leaves of absence. Other men, notably tailbacks Jim Noonan and Chuck Roche, quarterback Bill Henry, and tackle Doug Bradlee are looking more poised than they did last fall for Dick Harlow...
Although the true story will never be printed, last year's Crimson team was sick, mentally as well as physically. This fall, morale is high. During one Saturday's game scrimmage in the Stadium, for instance, the squad continued to slug it out despite a freak baby hurricane which roared onto the field with a burst of thunder, lightning, and rain and threatened to collapse the concrete colonnades...
...shirt and slacks, even though visibility was so bad that observers huddled in the press-box could hardly see the field of play through the murk. Coach Valpey has a word for all this: "fire." It's a word that will be heard often on Soldiers Field this fall...