Word: fall
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...forward and scooted 30 yards to set up Harvard's first win in a month Saturday, the coaching prowess of Freshman mentor Henry Nicholson Lamar as well as that of Dick Harlow came in for a put on the back. For the Kenary-Moffie combo first clicked in last Fall's yarding eleven, which catapulted a record seven players to this year's Varsity ranks...
Born in Washington, D. C., Lamar first broke into the athletic world as a high school senior, when in 1925 he won the A.A.U. junior light-heavyweight boxing title. That fall he entered the University of Virginia...
...fall of 1931, L. J. Conley, Harvard's head boxing coach, died and Lamar came to Cambridge to take his place. He coached the Varsity teams until boxing was abandoned as an intercollegiate sport in 1937, and since then has been teaching ring principles to Harvard pugilists...
Meanwhile, the football department has been keeping him busy in the fall. Although he made his niche on the canvas, his first love is football. "It's a funny thing," Lamar muses, "when I boxed they called me a football player and now that I coach football they call me a boxer...
...eyes, the most important phase of Freshman coaching is "getting the boys into the system of football that the Varsity will play," and making sure that none of his charges fall by the academic wayside...