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...while it looked as though Hal Kopp had escaped the sudden urge to off to Yale. But as well as getting a good line coach, perhaps Hickman thought it might be nice to learn the nuances of the Harvard linemen first hand. Hal got a locker at the Yale field house a week before the season opened...
Landing a good line coach didn't end Herman Hickman's plaintive cries of "I have no line!" After feasting since 1943 on a flock of corn and cornpone-fed Cadet candidates, it must have been a sad realization to meet a group of linemen who didn't all weigh over 200 pounds...
Then there was the injury list, a season long problem to Mr. Hickman and one of the reasons why he will coach the underdog today. Ferd Nadherny, who tore the Harvard line to shreds in 1946 and 1947, has been out most of the season; guard Vic Frank has had half a dozen minor injuries; all the centers have been injured and even today only one, Captain Bill Conway, is in top shape...
...Harvard game, they'll all be back, they always are. A ragged Hickman team beat Brown by 15 points, and a crippled one downed Wisconsin, which though hardly the class of the mid-west, is still a member of the Big Nine in good standing. Injury-riddled Yales threw a scare into Princeton...
...Herman will play his underdog role to the hilt, clothe his team in the Frank Merriwell tradition. Herman Hickman won't say a word about just how tough good healthy Yales are, because he's smart enough to hang on to his underdog spot...