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With six of the eleven men he started through most of the season complete newcomers to Harvard football, Dick Harlow had a mountainous task ahead of him in trying to turn out a finished club by November 23. No one who saw the outweighed, outexperienced, outmanned Crimson perform in those first 15 minutes against Yale will ever doubt that the coach did an amazing job with his greenest team, and the good news that comes as gravy to one of Harlow's most successful seasons here is that the work he started this year will only really start to come...
...remainder of the backfield is still in a state of extreme flux. A lot depends on what formation Coach Harlow decides on for his 1947 outfit. There are signs that the wily oologist still has his heart set on using a straight T sometime soon, despite his hasty abandonment of it this year. When Dick switched to his mysterious L formation, he did so because he had no heavy-duty blocking back or T quarterback, and wanted to make his outside plays go by using his guards for the line trapping and by giving his blocking backs easy angles...
...willing to shed that last drop of blood in the Homecoming Battle, preferring to eke out a successful record for their team week by week. Locker-room strife at Indiana and Ohio State has been laid to just such indifference of the local "Yale" rivalries. The fact that Dick Harlow, working with much the same type of ex-servicemen, could maintain his team's morale, ignite it to the levels of Saturday's inspired first period--is evidence of the wizardry that Harvard men recognize as the heart of the Harlow system...
Whether all of Harlow's subtle maneuvers will be able to overcame the shear brutal power and overwhelming weight of experience which Oiell will be able to produce will be the issue this afternoon...
...Yale offense will be solved by Prof. Harlow, if at all, only by the use of eleven ringers, each of whom is carrying a concealed weapon. . . IIf he is a genius, he now has a glittering opportunity to prove it, for otherwise Yale will sit down and eat Harvard one by one." November...