Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eddie Davis, the iron man of last fall's football team, may be playing right tackle for the Boston Yanks when next September rolls around. Last month after watching a re-run of the Harvard-Yale football game movies, Clipper Smith, head-coach of the Boston pro-football club, came up with a fat offer calculated to make Davis a Yank lineman when the 1947 National Professional Football League opens...
Smith, who drafted Yale's Fritz Barzilauskas in the National League pool this fall, came over to the Indoor Athletic Building to view his prospective charge in action on the celluloid, but emerged with some new ideas from an afternoon's session with the films and some of the Crimson coaches...
...pound Davis, probably the steadiest man in the line all season, won an honorable mention for All-American in 1944 but was in Japan as an ensign for the 1945 campaign. Last fall he played more minutes than any other man on the Crimson squad. He played two years of high school football for Poly Prep in Brooklyn before coming to Cambridge with the Navy V-12 unit. He was mentioned on several all-city teams during his high school gridiron career...
...casing the current battle for support which last night saw five major events--forums, concerts, and lectures--engage in a conflicting struggle to attract the potentially interested. Under any circumstances such a plethora of time killers would tax the attention of the student body. Some are doomed to fall short of the audience they would have a right to expect on a less eventful evening...
...organizations have the means of resolving this dog-fight. In a fit of hope, the Student Council last fall asked them to list their activities at Phillips Brooks House. So far the request has been more honored in the breach than the observance; there have been few listings and fewer consultations. With the post-war shortage of space hampering spare-time projects, there is little reason for deliberately throttling any support that might accrue to marginal groups by over-saturating the evening hours. The remedy lies with the organizations themselves and in a little planning...