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Giving the lie to a widespread rumor which found its way into the supplement of a local basic English magazine, gridiron coach dick Harlow matched two teams out of the spring football candidates at Soldiers Field yesterday...
...numberous uncertainties are complicating the scene this year the possible continuation of the draft law, the problem of retaining present lettermen, especially Navy students, the guessing games as to who will be returning from the service--all these factors make the gridiron picture this spring far more complicated than ever before...
...irregular bylined feature called "Passing the Buck." Written by the Service News' first editor, Robert S. Landau '45, who later was killed in naval action in the invasion of Lingayen, Gulf, the Philippines, the column attacked a "back-handed diatribe" in the Boston Herald, demanded resumption of gridiron hostilities with Yale, and said other things which made people wonder whether the Service News was us voiceless as it pretended...
...matter of fact," she wrote, "we were never close to the White House. We were invited only to the regular large receptions, as we had been since President Harding's time, and to a couple of dinners when Ray was president of the Gridiron Club. . . . Other newspapermen-even Westbrook Pegler-were invited for a weekend to Hyde Park, but never the Clappers...
Holy Cross ad Rutgers are the surprise additions for 1946, with the two meetings following the pending date, October 19. The Crimson last met H. C. on the gridiron in 1935, when the policy of aloofness from Boston teams--including B.U. and BC.--began. Rutgers has never before appeared on a Harvard football card...