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...Boston papers are still looking for Dick Harlow's successor, and most of them are doing pretty well. In fact, the only consideration to limit the scribes so far is whether their candidate for the post has his picture filed away among the paper's stockpile of photographic cuts. One journal discovered Wes Fesler's face in the closet and started forthwith to bring the well-known Ohio State mentor to Cambridge. Another found Frank Leahy's countenance on hand, but went through the formality of calling the South Bend shepherd on the telephone before laying any plans...
...matter of salary, Harlow got $10,000 as coach and several thousand as curator of Oology. If Globe correspondent Vern Miller '42 is an authority, this is tops for the Ivy League, with the exception of Lou Little, and is exceeded by only a handful of coaches in the United States. Whether Harlow's successor will hold an extra-curricular job or not is a matter of speculation...
Publicity director Sampson has said flatly that no man at Harvard now will get the job. This statement applies principally to backfield coach Bob Margarita and Jayvee mentor Chief Boston. An important consideration, though, is Harlow's unexplored contract and Sampson's prediction that Dick will take up some job like scouting that is closely allied to football. The Old Maestro still has a domicile in Cambridge and the H.A.A. might arrange to keep his great mind in the background while easing a neophyte like Boston into a big time coaching...
Finally, it is this department's impression, without wishing to question the parties concerned, that the so-called player "rebellion" was strictly passive during the season and that its exposure after the Yale game was a contributing factor to the resignation. Harlow is not one to resign under fire, but he probably realized that as a sick man he could not handle any squad trouble. With his dominating voice and energy gone, team spirit had to suffer, and those who cannot condone the player revolt can at least understand its causes...
...unexpected thaw set in at Cambridge yesterday, but it had no effect on the snowballing, energetic movement to name Chief Boston '39, last fall's Jayvee football coach, as successor to Richard C. Harlow...