Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying to get back as close to normal as possible, as quickly as we can," Col. Bingham said, and emphasized that this was to be a "formal" game in every sense of the word...
...Jenkins, MacDonald, Fritts, Harwood, and Cowen are veterans of Henry Lamar's '44 informal team, which piled up a respectable record of four and one. Fisher, Flynn, O'Donnell, DiLuzio, and Miller have just returned from the wars; the first two saw much service on the '42 team, last formal squad to take the field for Coach Harlow, and they are being counted on heavily this year. Ken O'Donnell, a flight leader with 34 missions to his credit, is a younger brother of Cleo O'Donnell of '42 Varsity fame, and will see much action at tailback along with...
Some 13 men from Henry Lamar's 1944 informal squad will be back as the nucleus of this year's team, reinforced by three or four returning veterans from the 1942 formal team. Among the regulars on the forward wall will be Dave Mackintosh and Rod Perkins at the end positions, Chet Pierce at tackle, Howie Foster, Ellis Hodge, Teddy Woggon, and Mel Allen at guard, and Paul O'Leary at center...
...Though formal football and the Yale game will wait until 1946, Harvard has regained the major part of its peacetime coaching staff. Coach Dick Harlow, back from three years of service as a Lieutenant-Commander in the Navy, will be assisted by Al McCoy, also back from service in the armed forces. Also helping out will be, of course, Floyd Stah! and Henry Lamar...
...William Alfred George Cambridge, first Earl of Athlone, and his wife, the Princess Alice. Athlone. for five years the representative in Canada of his nephew George VI, was on his way to perform for the last time the most impressive of a Canadian Governor General's functions-the formal opening of a session of Parliament...