Word: gridmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale's undefeated and only once tied football team is fully aware that it has the toughest job of the year on its hands Saturday in Cambridge. Still the Eli gridmen are in good shape, mentally and physically. The seven games so far have proven that they have the stuff. With a week's intensive practice supplementing al this experience, they expect...
...yards and the other for 78, and the third by Bill Hutchinson who intercepted a Bates pass and scampered 63 yards for a touchdown. But the team did not function properly as a unit and was unable to make even two consecutive first downs against the very inediocre Bobcat gridmen...
Featuring the fighting tonight will be the battling in the heavyweight class. Charlie Kessler has been forced to drop out of the competition but Joe Nee and Jim Gaffney of the Varsity gridmen will be in there with a Freshman named Tudor Gardiner. Just how these three will be divided up remains to be seen, but it makes little difference. Gardiner is really a good boxer, as well as a topnotch wrestier, and he is going to give the two big upperclassmen a run for their money...
...Houghton, Bob Burnett and Prouty starred in the backfield, while Captain Knapp and Schmidt turned in excellent line performances. Dan Cheever started at center for Ric Hedblom, who was suffering from an injury, but Hedblom was able to play for a few minutes. During the last half, the Varsity gridmen watched the game...
After the two week break in training following the football game with Yale next Saturday, about 11 more men are expected to report. These gridmen will be led by Capain Gorge Ford and will include such veterans as George Roberts, Russ Allen, and Ralph Pope. A strong Sophomore group will likewise turn out at this time. Austie Harding, captain of last year's undefeated Freshmen, and Win Jameson will be seeking places on the forward line and such stalwarts as Chink Fearon, Charlie Houghton, and Tubber Carstein will try to work into the lineup on the defense...