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Opening the third period the Freshmen made their only real drive and reached the Exeter 21 on a forward pass from Wayne Johnson to Steve Gifford. All attempts to advance further failed when the '44 running attack bogged down and the Exonians took the ball on downs...
...lineups: FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM Bridge, le le, Aldrich Hibbard, lt lt, Mallett DeCoster, lg lg, Warburton Mason, c c. Byrnes Blanchard, rg rg, Dorsey Parson, rt rt, Fisher Cummings, re re, Hyde Gleason, qb qb, Geethals Johnson, lhb lhb, O'Donnell Gifford, rhb rhb, Truesdale Cowen, fb fb, Anderson
Penson and Sachs, goal; Killam and Pecci-Blunt, right half; Oresman and Lowe, left half; Ives, Myerson, and Kyte, right half; Edgar, center half; McCook and Hanford, left half; Willetts and Staber, right outside; Murphy and Poor, right inside; Calhoun and Sawhill, center forward; Vorley and Gifford, left inside; and Herskovits, left outside...
...first line managed to open up good holes through which Steve Gifford and other '44 backs ran with case. The blocking down field, however, was weak...
...Herky" Herskovits and Dick Gifford, also two former Freshman starts, have a good chance to fill the outside wing positions left by Mendel and Page. But as yet the biggest difficulty of all is still unsolved, namely the lack of fullbacks. As Carr points out it takes four fullbacks to give any college team defensive strength. So far only two men have been found with enough skill to fill this position...