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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, and varsity football captain Howard E. Houston '50, will step to the University Theater stage at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow to help celebrate the "kick-off" of Cambridge's annual Red Feather campaign...
...their first game since they won the Sugar Bowl championship from North Carolina on New Year's Day. The only thing that stopped them was rain, and that for only 24 hours. Next night, against a supposedly strong Boston College team, Halfback George Thomas ran the opening kick-off back for 95 yards and a touchdown. By game's end, Oklahoma's split-T formation had rolled up 358 yards on the ground and another 48 by passing. Final score: Oklahoma 46, Boston College...
...Only Kick-off Missing...
There were other signs of "actual game conditions," even down to referees and their natural consequences, penalties. The only thing missing, in fact, was the kick-off. As far as injuries go, it is the most dangerous; and besides, it takes up too much time...
...spotters, according to the spokesman, were to give the signal when players and officials moved out of the mid-field area. The first opportunity of this kind did not come until Harvard had been downed deep in its own territory after the kick...