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...Captain Art Johns and Lupe Lupien, the baseball squad beasts an all-veteran outfield and infield, with the exception of Sophomore shortstop Fred Keyes. Veteran batterymen are Tom Healey and Slim Curtiss, and Bob Fulton, first-team catcher from last season...
With Moseley and Ziggy resting, the first-team backfield was a nondescript aggregation, quartered by George Hedblom in the bucking back position. Only one shift of importance was made when George Roberts, former Milton Academy quarterback, was boosted from the Jayvee squad to signal caller on the Varsity B team...
...course divided, but the defense of the good old days appears less robust than might have been expected. There is a strong current of student protest. Three members of this year's varsity, headed by the renowned "Albie" Booth, have joined with Coach Stevens in deploring the exposure of first-team men to the grave risk of lost games. They assert that Yale teams "have been winning teams for sixty years," and they bespeak tender solicitude for a "splendid record" and a "noble heritage." The Yale Daily News fears "the complete obliteration of Yale's athletic traditions." The Harvard CRIMSON...
...University team A will pit the same five men against the Boatmen that have comprised the first squad personnel all season, with the exception of Donald Frame '32 in place of A.W. Patterson '32. Frame, who last year was also Freshman tennis captain, has risen in the last week to a first-team berth from Team...
...problems that Mr. Lowell points out as facing the athletic board, two are of prime importance,--the overemphasis of first-team games in the minds of undergraduates and the recent lack of interest in inter-mural sports. The latter question has been settled at Harvard for the time being by the rise of class athletics, similar to those at Yale, and the innovation of inter-dormitory games. But Mr. Lowell passes over the first problem--that of over-emphasis--with the following laconic reference (specifically to the practice of having inter collegiate games every Saturday of the autumn)--"It tends...