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...Junior and Senior class football teams played to a tie score of 6 to 6 on a muddy and slippery gridiron at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. After D. R. Weir '32 had made a long run, Richard Murphy '32, took the ball on the next play and scored the touchdown for the Juniors. The Senior score was made when H. R. Nyhoff '31, after two brilliant long runs, went over for a touchdown. Neither team was able to make the extra points...
...Freshman football team and Worcester Academy fought to a score- less tie in a field of mud and slime on the Freshman gridiron of Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon. The contest was fiercely fought and both elevens showed a stubborn defensive play...
Every now and then some college football player who attained a measure of fame on the gridiron in his under-graduate days, denounces the game as one lacking all the desirable attributes a game should possess. An example of what we refer to may be found in the article by a former Harvard player, Hubbard, in one of the popular magazines several years ago. Players who share his view are out to declare that if they had their college days to live over they would not play football, and they would not let their sons play...
...yesterday the weather man changed the aspect of the tilt by ordering rain, and although he has promised fair weather for today there is no telling just what the field will be like. The canvas covering that groundkeeper Dennis Enright always gets out on rainy days covered the gridiron all day yesterday but consistent rains will make the field soggy just the same...
Following the practice session, Coach Jack Cannell announced plans for the trip to Cambridge. The Green gridiron squad will consist of 39 men and they will leave Hanover at noon tomorrow on the special train to Boston. A short and light drill will be held in the morning at 10 o'clock and from the Field the team will go to the train...