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...popular bootlegger since Prohibition, irretrievable. McLaughry has been shuffling and dealing three substitute quarterbacks into his winged T. One of them, temporary first stringer, is sophomore Jim Miller, a fair runner and one passer, but totally unreceptive. Another is the more experienced Gone Howard, who is a good ball-handler but throws what must be intercollegiate football's most wobbly pass. The third senior Dick Brown, is neither so deceptive as Howard nor so accurate a pitcher as Miller...
...pair of plebes, Meyers and Pete Vann, keep the quarterback position from being the weakest on the team. (West Point, in accordance with the N.C.A.A. ruling, allows freshmen to play varsity ball.) Meyers, a good T ball-handler and passer, brought a leg injury out of the Northwestern game severe enough to keep him on the bench while his mates bowed to Dartmouth. Vann is a bullet-passer, who is fortunate enough to have ends who can hold onto the ball. Because of line deficiencies, the first-year Cadet has been buried far behind scrimmage several times in the opening...
Allegedly ahead, of Vann, as second quarterback, is junior Dick Boyle. But, although Boyle is a better ball-handler than Vann, the more experienced man's forward passes have a distinctly unstable end-over-end tendency...
...deceptive T-formation such as the Lions use requires a smooth ball handler who can pass accurately. Price--holder of the highest passing percentage (.538) in Columbia history--fills the bill nicely...
...blandly paraphrase William James to a sobbing nine-year-old sister ("If you cry you will feel bad, and if you feel bad you will cry"). He could swim the 2½ miles across Henderson Bay, and when the family acquired a small sailboat, he became an expert boat handler, weather forecaster, navigator of the coves of eastern Lake Ontario...