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...Harvard, whence he came from Brown University, where he'd been Varsity end coach. Brown was Varson basketball coach, as well as watching the ends on the gridiron. The Crimson has Brown to Dartmouth in 1943 and as head coach for the Indians in that year he chalked up six wins one loss...
Navy, with an even more impressive scoring average of 62 to the opposition's 39.2, is also led by a footballer turned sharpshooter, Center (blocking back) Dick Duden. The Middies, using a court brand of their rough, bruising gridiron tactics, last week tripped Temple (55-to-47) and West Virginia (60-to-40) to make it nine straight...
Necessity was the mother of his gridiron inventiveness. Because Tech's academic standards were high, his squads correspondingly small, onetime Mathematics Professor William Anderson Alexander devised an intricate type of play that few but his apt engineers could have mastered. Ruddy-faced Coach Alex carried his chalk and blackboard to the half-time dressing rooms, substituted diagraming for tear-jerking pep talks. He said rousing up the boys produced mental instability...
...formal basis next fall. According to the official release, the Orange and Black expects to play eight regular games, many of them against her old rivals with whom relations had been broken off for the duration. The bulletin also disclosed the hiring of Charlle Randolph as future full time gridiron coach...
Taking first things first, Ohio State's homegrown, all-civilian, unbeaten team crashed head-on into once-beaten Michigan. With backfield strength about equal, this was one more gridiron battle that was decided up front. The Michigan line hit hard, but not quite so hard as Ohio's, led by 190-lb. Bill Hackett, prospective All-America guard, and Bill Willis, husky Negro tackle. Their bone-crushing tackles were mainly responsible for four Michigan fumbles...