Word: gannon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although little pre-game scouting has been undertaken by either side, the Deacons expect regged if not skilled opposition from a team that includes Cleo O'Donnell, Chip Gannon, Vince Moravee, Nick Rodis, Chuck Glynn, and Jim Noonan in its lineup...
...recent spewings in two Boston afternoon papers about Chip Gannon in particular and the Harvard football team in general, both of which met with speedy and heated denials from the persons concerned, are merely further exhibition of Hub sports writing that could be labelled most generously as "colorful." A more accurate appellation might be 'gossip-mongering," but that's not a pretty phrase...
...Gannon to Quit Harvard" and "Harvard also Had Its Dissensions" were headline highlights in two Boston papers last night, and both statements met with vigorous, angry denials from the individuals concerned at the Varsity Club shortly afterwards...
...story on Gannon, carried under the by-line of Arthur Siegal, sports editor of the Boston Traveler, was called "a lie" by the Crimson wingback. "I don't know where he got the story," Gannon added, "but it's not true. We're going to have a good club next year, and it looks like people who don't like us are trying to ruin the team before we even get started...
Siegal, admitting that Gannon's reported resignation was only a rumor, went on to say "he has been figuring that, as a Freshman at the age of 24, he's going to be missing a few years that might be spent more profitably," Reached at his office last night, the writer said his information came form "a usually god source," and reiterated the fact that his report had been just hearsay...