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...seven other schools suggested here are in practically the same athletic boat as Harvard, facing isolation in a subsidization conscious grid world. Most of these Ivy institutions have respectable endowments and do not have to worry about a new library or the next salaries for professors so they do not need to tap the college football racket for profits and national prominence. What is right for the Ivy colleges is amatour football...
Miller's statement last night did more than reveal Yale's withdrawal from major-league grid ranks. It was an unequivocal declaration that the University of Pennsylvania is sponsoring professional football, and that the Elis want no further grid relations with their Quaker neighbors...
Michigan is taking its football pretty seriously this fall. The players have decided to dedicate the year to "Hurry-Up" Yoat, the grand old man of Michigan football. As grid coach and director of athletics, he was responsible for the development of one of the finest athletic plants in the country at the Ann Arbor institution. Coach Crisler has great material and a chance to scale dizzy heights if his reserve line strength proves adequate...
...stronger team than last year sparked by fine spirit is the forecast Dick Harlow makes for his 1940 Crimson grid machine the day before its first game of the year. There is no climax runner among, the starting backfield quartet, and line reserves are still a problem, but the first team, weighing in at 188 pounds from tackle to tackle, will give a good account of itself...
Harvard drawn a stiff opening grid assignment this coming Saturday afternoon in little Amherst, a 32 to 7 victor over Hobart. Both their line and the backfield were raked heavily by last June's graduation, but the present Purple and While gridmen are primed to shoot the works against the Crimson. Amherst still remembers an October day in 1903 when its plucky eleven authored a stunning 5 to 0 upset of mighty Harvard...