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Approximately 180 candidates for the Freshman football team have been going through their paces under the supervision of A. E. French '29, coach of the 1933 gridiron squad...
With a pair of veteran guards back again for a nucleus and a group of promising youngsters rapidly rising to positions of reliability, this department of Harvard's gridiron machine is probably better fixed for the impending campaign against the country's best than any of its near relatives...
...tendency so much in evidence now towards evening gridiron frolics under the illumination of powerful arc lights is introducing an element into college football which may well prove alarming to those of the football-going public who consider the contest one of the smaller elements of the football day, or rather holiday. The question as to whether the football player or the serious onlooker will be disappointed will fortunately not be raised at Harvard for some time to come; for what arc lights there are have been virtually relegated to the limbo of superannuation from which they are not likely...
...Grange" helps him with his studies, though J. A. K. Herbert sometimes does.† But neither does his fame diminish bis popularity at the Point because, newspaper and schoolgirl illusions to the contrary notwithstanding. Christian Keener Cagle is not a domineering, fire-eating, muscle-bulging hero off the gridiron. He is quiet, retiring. He brought a drawl but not much rambunctiousness with him from Louisiana. He is not even redhaired, as legend says, nor six feet tall. But two feet are better than six if they can carry you as fast as Cagle's through a broken field...
After the initial cut of the 1929 campaign there are four men left to fight it out for the pivot position on the Crimson gridiron machine. They are B.H. Ticknor '31. J.H. Gildea '31, C.F. Richards '31, and C.C. Cunningham...