Word: fall
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...thing is certain. The Crimson doesn't need any warning about the prowess of this year's Rutger's team. The Scarlet eleven that will line up in the Stadium this afternoon is the same one which won here last fall 13 to 0, except for a couple of new men who have displaced 1946 starters still with the squad. And football players, like elephants, have long memories...
Also visible will be essentially the same group of football players who wreaked Crimson hopes for an undefeated season right around Hallowe'en time last year. This fall, however, most of them are playing second string and Harlow's eleven has been beaten twice to date. The local bookies quote Rutgers a one point favorite, but the Crimson will have to stage a brilliant upset to equal or better this mark...
...Rutgers University football eleven that will face Harvard's gridiron machine at Soldiers Field today will be composed of just about the same performers who overturned the Crimson in a 13 to 0 upset last Fall at this time...
Track captain-elect Frank Gurley, Bill O'Connor, and Vince Moriarty were to have been the 1-2-3 scoring punch of this year's unit. Gurley is passing up the sport this fall to concentrate on his studies; O'Connor looked good in preseason practice jaunts along the riverbank until a leg injury finished him, and Moriarty dropped out after the first meet on account of extra academic chores. Moriarty, however, will fly down to Princeton tomorrow morning to help the Crimson out against Yale...
Twice each week during the fall, enthusiastic but undertrained House football teams clash in a series of games characterized by violence rather than any strict observance of gridiron etiquette. The games to decide an intramural champion are marred by a barrage of un-called penalties and totally unnecessary injuries. Ostensibly conducted under full collegiate rules, House football betrays a sandlot amateurism that threatens to execute players instead of plays...