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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pratt & the Graf Spee. Military Expert Fletcher Pratt of New York City invented in 1929 and has since developed a Naval War Game which actually approximates sea war. One night in 1939 the players looked at each other and whistled. Three light ships had just sunk the German pocket battleship, the Admiral Graf Spee, a supposedly impossible feat. But their calculations showed it could be done-and they were not so much surprised as vindicated when the Graf Spee actually got her comeuppance in just that way six months later off Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Wars | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...Graf to Help Out Brown...

Author: By Melvin J. Kessel, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 11/24/1942 | See Source »

Helping out Brown yesterday was Jack Graf, who played three years at guard for Ohio State. Graf is studying at the Business School, and he aided Harlow with the football team this fall...

Author: By Melvin J. Kessel, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 11/24/1942 | See Source »

...team donned its blue, Yale like uniforms again, and the A and B squads worked over defenses against the Eli attack. Since Jack Graf was busy with his Jayvees, there was no grand lose imitation of any Blue back...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Passing, Running Attack Practiced Against Eli Plays | 11/18/1942 | See Source »

Passing and kicking drills preceded the scrimmage, and Jack Graf, mimic extraordinary of opposing stars, played the role of Brown's Don Savage, a one-man army against Holy Cross Saturday...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Harlowmen Lose Lyle For Rest of Campaign | 11/10/1942 | See Source »

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