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When an opening game crowd files slowly into the Stadium this afternoon to inaugurate the seventy-third season in Crimson gridiron history, the visiting team for the first-time will be provided by Western Maryland College. The kick-off is scheduled for 2:30 o'clock, with football and musical entertainment being provided for the patrons by scholars of both institutions...
...visitors sent three full teams into the Stadium yesterday afternoon to hold their final practice before actual combat. Following their retreat into Dillon Field House. Dick Harlow sent his clean-uniformed forces onto the same gridiron to pose for pictures and run through plays. If the opposition today is half as ferocious as the cameraman they faced yesterday, the game ought...
...first time. Inaugurating what was dubbed, topically at the time, a "football new deal" for the University, Harlow's first team emphatically improved upon its immediate predecessor: it played respectable football at all times, it reduced margins of defeat to a gentlemanly size, and it turned the local gridiron tide away from the 1934 abyss back toward its traditional prominence. By 1936, Harvard men were no longer apologizing for their football team...
Like the 1936 squad, the 1947 team takes the field this afternoon a sophomore Harlow outfit. While the coach was in the Navy, Stadium performances approached the low established in the early thirties, and on his return he had to assemble a completely new gridiron machine. But, his first postwar team achieved much more in the way of a notable record than did his initial squad in 1935. It was the same old Harlow pattern-merely encouraged a bit thanks to some of the best material seen along the Charles in a decade-and if the trend continues through...
...adition to increased gridiron activity, a full touch football league is planned, while cross country and track events will be also good for the three required credits per week. The status of tennis is still undecided, since the new courts on Soldiers Field are as yet incomplete, but Samborski expressed doubt early this week as to whether the playing surfaces would be ready...