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...nine years as coach at the gridiron-conscious University of Maryland, Big Jim Tatum saw his Terrapins cover themselves with glory: they won 71 games, lost only 13, played five bowl games. It was only natural, therefore, to expect that when Big Jim announced that he had accepted a $15,000 coaching job at the University of North Carolina, Maryland should be plunged in gloom. But the gloom was hardly universal-nor was there cheering at Chapel Hill. At both places, it seemed, students were showing distinct signs of growing up. Said Maryland's undergraduate Diamondback...
...Danville (pop. 10,000) and tiny Centre College (enrollment 417; male, 250.) Back in 1921 Centre was even smaller; its total student body numbered about 200. Of the 31 men who came out for football in that year, however, Coach Charley Moran fashioned a team that became a gridiron power in the East. On October 29, in Harvard Stadium, his Colonels came out of their half-time prayer meeting to beat the Crimson, 6 to 0, in one of the most startling upsets of sports history. "Harvard's defeat Saturday at the hands of Centre College demonstrates conclusively the critical...
...Playfair is one of those athletic success stories which boys under sixteen are usually subjected to. This is one of the few, understandably enough, which has been written about Harvard athletics. Hank Fuller, son of the past football great, Toby Fuller, has the curse of his father's gridiron fame upon him, and suffers indescribable anguish when he proves himself an utter clout on every sort of playing field. In time, however, he overcomes what appears to be only a psychological condition, and wins the Yale hockey game with brilliant playing. This epic contains the usual amount of back-slapping...
Except for a slip last Saturday, Yale's gridiron eleven has played strong consistent football this season. Almost the same well-balanced team which has won six of eight games, including an impressive victory over Army and decisions over three foes who defeated the Crimson: Cornell, Brown and Dartmouth, will start Saturday against Harvard...
Harvard-Yale soccer games do not draw the frantic attention that their gridiron counterparts get. Publicity men are mimeographing reams of releases about this Saturday's football game, but neither Yale's verbose Charley Loftus nor the H.A.A.'s Hank Johnson knew yesterday the all-time standings in Crimson-Blue soccer, or even when the series began...