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Cambridge police today start a search for some 8 to 12 Square rioters--many of them undergraduates--whose midnight fracas last night resulted in the arrest of one 23-year old College Junior.
Although Carman will be out, Lew Preston and Al Key, also hurt in Wednesday's fracas, will be ready. Doug Anderson will return to the third line wearing a cast over his wrist, sprained this week in practice.
Four Harvard players were injured and one spectator was arrested at the fracas. Jack Carman received the most serious injuries. He suffered a possible concussion in addition to a deep gash on his lip and was taken to Stillman Infirmary.
Feelings began to run high when a Harvard student with firecrackers bombarded a Yalie sitting nearby. Replying with a friendly barrage of beerbottles, the Yalie soon dragged friends into the fracas.
Thousands of embattled undergraduates halted the fracas to stand and watch as two youths raced into the wooden stands and snatched a blanket from over a couple who were engaged in "amorous activities." It was probably the best-witnessed indiscretion since the Harvard off-side penalty that called back Cannon...