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...general attitude throughout the student body is unenthusiastic about Saturday's battle. The signs that hung from towers and windows before the Princeton game are strangely absent, and the undergraduate spirit seems broken after the worst Yale football season since 1941. There are some who feel that Herman Hickman has failed with excellent material, and they feel certain that a loss to the Crimson would put strong alumni pressure on the rotund coach, now in the second year of a ten year contract...
...Hickman gave his boys their usual Monday off, but today they were at it again, in a secret session closed to press and visitors. The chips are down for the team that started off well against Bates, but was only able to win one other game...
...Bulldogs, it seems, have a poor offense and certain fairly obvious weaknesses in a pretty good defense. Herman Hickman, the poor man's Milton Berle, has been cracking a desperate whip over his offensive eleven in practices for the past month, but the Elis have still lost five of their last six contests, and have been shut out in three of them. Charley Caldwell's team...
...Elis ran only one winged T play in the game; the rest was all straight and split T. And under Hickman's system you can often tell whether a pass or running play is coming up and where it is going. Herman, from what we saw, tries to combine a mite of single wing power with his T deception; if it's a running play to the right, for example, the right half is a couple of steps closer to the line and the left half draws back a step. This may be a good thing...
...Herman Hickman must have had a perfectly miserable afternoon at the Stadium Saturday. Everything the rotund Yale coach looked at spelled pain for the Elis...