Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last fall's Crimson Jayvee team succeeded in making itself felt around the East. Undefeated in all is games, the Bostonmen ended by squashing. Yale, 26-0, as a driving rain gradually turned the field into a swamp...
Although last year a number of Freshmen held positions on the Jayvee eleven, this fall under the now Ivy League rulings, the Class of '51' can compete only in Freshman athletics...
...squad "will pan out later" or some tolerable looking passer "will complete a few in actual combat." This year the optimism is not strained. While leveller heads will insist that every team in the country is loaded, that the best bet on nine out of any tea games this fall will be even money, and that the Crimson in particular may, well be outweighed by every eleven it faces, even Western Maryland and Dartmouth, the average follower of Dick Harlow's 1947 forces is bound to succumb to a feeling of exuberant hope...
...seven of nine games has returned 20 lettermen, including the outstanding halfback threat Thomas (Chip) Gannon, who runs best to port and hurls passes lefthanded. There is six-foot-three 200-pound plunging fullback Captain Vince Moraveo who averaged six yards a line buck in one contest last fall when a three-yard plunge for a touchdown brought his average down, and whose virtual loss from the Yale game with an Injury was a mortal blow to the team. There is Ken O'Donnell, brother of last fall's captain Cleo, who played only on the defense last season because...
Prospects for the vital center slot are letterman Chuck Glynn, and former Freshmen Bill Hickey and Don Stone. The latter attracted favorable attention in the B. C. scrimmage. At guard there are several excellent prospects, including last fall's regulars Emil Dravaric and Nick Rodis, strong contender Bob Drennan, and scrappy Jim Feinberg among the lettermen, 1945 regular Howie Foster, and last year's Freshman captain Dick Guidera...