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...defensemen are Smitty Jackson and Bill Platt, rugged center of the grid team...
While Clint Frank, considered by many grid followers as the outstanding back of the East, gives the starting backfield a slight edge, this advantage is overbalanced by the eight first-string backs which Coach Howie Odell has been able to provide for the game. Struck and Hedblom at fullbacks; McTernen, Roberts, Oakes, and Stuart at wingbacks; and Wilson and Boston at quarterback will be substituted for each other with bewildering rapidity, keeping the attack quartet fresh at all times. And in case these eight should get winded, Ford and Watt have both rated starting berths during the season...
About 80 strong, the Midshipmen grid coterie will arrive at 9 o'clock this morning at South Station. According to bulletin from the Naval Academy, they will "base" at the Belmont Country Club. Bill, the Navy goat, who is arriving on the same train, will "base" in the Army quarters of the Harvard R.O.T.C. on Soldiers Field
...scrimmage scenes, and also succeeded in lightening the romance by typical, though well-chosen, sophomoric wisecracks. Though roommates Benny Baker and Tom Brown carry most of the scenes, the same Eleanore Whitney whose star faded so suddenly this summer gives herself a boost back up the ladder in this grid Irony romance...
...this confidence hardly seems justified. But a team which includes veterans Captain Montgomery, Charley Toil, Fred Ritter, George Stoess, and Steve Cullinan in the line and Ken Sandbach, Jack White, and Chick Kaufman in the backfield boasts enough potential power to run rough-shod over most of the stronger grid teams in the east...