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...Buell '23, each defeated Yale by the same score of 10 to 3 and met with success in a majority of their other games. Coming from Exeter in 1919 he quickly lived up to his preparatory school reputation by winning a berth on his Freshman gridiron squad and putting the shot for the 1923 track team...
...consistent game in front of the cage and will probably be given the first call this afternoon. The second forward line which will undoubtedly see service during the contest is composed of Cariton and Hutchinson, wings, and Cunning, ham, center. The latter was first string fullback on the gridiron squad last fall...
...this point the football coach came upon the scene. He is the only overt independent on the city council. He is William Roper, head coach of the Princeton eleven, inciter of great deeds on the gridiron, exhorter of youth in wholesome sport. He exclaimed in council meeting...
...decisive. For now it is the undergraduate who leads our way--the Harvard Crimson and the Yale News concurring. What should be a sport has become an arduous grind, endured by most of the players only because college loyalty demands the sacrifice as no less a luminary of the gridiron than George Owen declared of late in the Independent. What should be a strictly collegiate function has become a gigantic public spectacle, raising the young gentlemen engaged in it to the notoriety of gladiators and matadors. What should be strictly amateur in spirit has taken on strange aspects of professionalism...
...election of Coady, if he is considered as a lineman, makes the score four-all between linemen and backs among Harvard gridiron leaders since the way W. J. Murray '20, Arnold Horween '21, C. C. Buell '23, and M. A. Cheek '26 are the backfield men who have commanded the Crimson forces, and the linemen are R. K. Kane '22, C. J. Hubbard '24, and M. W. Greenough...