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Coach Chief Boston's Junior Varsity eleven gets its baptism of gridiron fire this afternoon at 3 o'clock, which the Crimson Jayvees face the Tufts Junior Varsity on Soldiers Field...
Post-war collegiate life returns to Cambridge with a vengeance today, when the Varsity football team opens its first formal gridiron schedule since 1942 against a University of Connecticut squad which has won 20 of its last 24 contests. Kickoff time is 2:30 o'clock and an estimated gathering of 25,000 will watch the action...
...first time since suspension of formal athletics four years ago, freshmen will have a football squad of their own this fall. Along with that team will be an active Jayvee eleven in the biggest gridiron hodgepodge in recent history...
...since the fall of 1942 has a Harvard band sprawled its comely H's across a while striped green gridiron come half-time at Soldiers Field on a crisp Saturday afternoon. But this year, things are different, and the Harvard University Band, the only band in the country controlled exclusively by its members, will once again cavort before weekend throngs at all nine (count 'em, nine) football games this year...
Died. Fielding Harris ("Hurry Up") Yost, 75, versatile grand old man of football, inventor of many a dazzling play, developer of the fake place kick, canny director of shifty gridiron maneuver built around "a punt, a pass and a prayer"; longtime (1901-27) University of Michigan coach and athletic director (1921-41) whose point-a-minute teams made football history during the first five years of the century; of a gall-bladder ailment; in Ann Arbor, Mich...