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...glass-enclosed bridge looking down on a huge map at the R. A. F.'s Fighter Command GHQ, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding last week kept tabs on these three aerial barriers. Below on the action grid, intelligence officers in earphones sat like croupiers raking little planes back & forth across squares ruled on the map, following the progress of air battles. This efficient control system was the centre of a complicated network of telephones, teletypewriters and visual signals which with extraordinary speed coordinated airfields all over Britain. In from observer posts on the coasts to various...
With each contribution book the H.A.A. will hand out a packet of tickets for all Soldiers Field grid contests, thereby giving each student a permanent seat for the season. For the Pennsylvania and Yale games, which will be played out of town this year, students will have to exchange contribution book coupons for tickets as in former years...
...mild renaissance this fall, but improved play may not be reflected in the won and lost column because the calibre of football played in the Ivy League is on the upswing. The schedule itself is the most ambitions ever undertaken by a Crimson eleven, and traditional Harvard grid opponents are much improved...
Upwards of 100 Yardling grid candidates will report to head coach Chief Boston and his assistants this afternoon after registration for the initial practice of the season. Physical examinations will start at 9 o'clock this morning...
...have a question-mark team, which may make or break itself throughout a rigorous schedule. Material is only surface deep in several spots, but a grid campaign free of costly injuries is long overdue for Dick Harlow and his aides. If the tackles can hold out against the terrific power which is certain to be generated directly at them, Dick Harlow may pull a big surprise and herd his Johnnies right back into the thick of the Big Three scrap...