Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kimball's group will recommend that the same men who put out the Red Book in the spring organize the Register for the next fall. Thus neither publication will find itself lacking experienced personnel...
...there is no real explanation for this fall's rash of injuries. They cannot be blamed on the Virginia game. Nick Rodis was hurt facing Western Maryland; Bob Kennedy, Emil Drvaric, and Stretch Mazzone against Boston University; Howie Houston, Chester Pierce, and Paul Lazzaro in the Holy Cross game; and Don Stone and possibly John Gorczynski against Dartmouth...
...least one complete game suggest the whole story of the damage done. Men sometimes had to learn new plays, offenses had to be changed, and some players were compelled even to switch into totally unfamiliar positions--all to the undoing of many precious weeks of spring and fall training. But the greatest harm has come from lack of contact work...
...coaching runs, "The only way to learn to play football, gentlemen, is to play football." Yesterday the Varsity A squad held its first scrimmage outside of Saturday combat in several weeks. Last year two or three midweek contact sessions were the general rule. The coaching staff repeatedly announced this fall that contact work would be resumed "as soon as the team was at least two deep in each position." The prospect of losing the last tackle or fullback was too frightening to permit much more than long signal drills...
...year, regardless of intervening victories and defeats. The Varsity, however, will not necessarily find its most difficult future test in the Elis, considering the game coming up Saturday. In winning its opener from Rutgers 40 to 28, Columbia was forced to play one of its best games this fall...