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...things considered, such onetime big-timers as Alabama, Tennessee and Michigan State decided it was time to resume operations after a year's absence from the gridiron. Others, like Princeton and Carnegie Tech, figuring contrariwise, had tossed in the towel for the duration. Of the few teams already in action, Michigan's teens rang the freshman bell loudest last week by winning their opener, 12 -to-7, against the strong Iowa Seahawks (Naval Pre-Flight); 6-ft. 4 Freshman End Dick Rifenburg caught passes and ran for both Michigan touchdowns...
Backing up Navin as reserve number four backs are Bob Chapple, star on the baseball nine, who is now ready for action on the gridiron, Rusty Hankin, and George O'Day. Chapple's pile-driving smashes through the line stood out on Saturday for the red team; Hankin was injured and is temporarily out of action...
Three games, all in October, have already been arranged for the eleven, and Getchell stated that contests will be scheduled after final examinations if opponents can be found. The Crimson will face Tufts on the gridiron on September 16, Worcester Polytechnic Institute on September 30 and Boston College on October 7, all of these meetings being on Saturday afternoons at Soldiers Field...
Lamar expects several men who played on the summer baseball team to come out for the gridiron squad...
...invading hoopsters are led by one 6 foot, 3 inch, 225 pound center named George Connor, who averages 17 points a game. This is the same George Connor who was the scourge of the Eastern gridiron last season as Harvard's former basketball coach, Earl Brown, now coaching football and basketball at Dartmouth, will testify...