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...undergraduate at the College, Daly was class marshal and football captain. He was assistant gridiron coach here from 1906 to 1913. After serving two tenures as head coach at West Point, which he also attended, Daly was appointed professor of Military Science and Tactics at Harvard. In 1951 he was elected to the Football Hall of Fame, at New Brunswick...
...Thirty gridiron stars were given Honorable Mention. Leading the list of six Harvard players was Harold Keohane, who was yesterday elected captain for next season. Two linemen, Peter Briggs and Robert Foster, also made the team and Harvard also dominated the choices for the backfield with three: Charley Ravenel, Chet Boulris, and Sam Halaby...
This is the time of year when some gridiron soothsayers boisterously brandish the tattered copy of their successful predictions; others cry softly in their beers, offering lame excuses for their prognosticatory failures...
...repeatedly complained that the cheerleading system is poorly organized; that there is no apparatus for carrying the squad over from year to year by drumming up interest in cheerleading; that the men who are enlisted are not always particularly interested or spirited; and there therefore their performance on the gridiron is often lackadaisical...
Though such a loss is discouraging, the Crimson eleven's performance, which clearly dominated the soggy gridiron, was in many respects heartening. Its defense, bulwarked by captain Bob Shaunessy. Pete Briggs, and Hal Anderson, had the Buffalo backs in awe, and with a little more speed, the attack could have broken the game wide open...