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...close of yesterday's long practice session. Coach Horween announced his tentative starting line-up against the Brown invaders on Saturday. This eleven, with two exceptions, is the same which faced Princeton at the kick-off; Saltonstall, playing left end in place of Meadows, and French, at left halfback for the injured Guarnaccia, did not start against the Tiger...
From the opening kick-off the winners forced the play, adopting a rushing game that kept the ball in their opponents territory most of the time. Although gaining consistently, and outplaying the Sophomores at every angle, the 1928 eleven distressing tendency to fumble in the pinches, which robbed it of more than one scoring chance...
Slagle, whose elusive speed has been the bane of eastern tacklers for the last two years, is likely to be on the side lines at the opening kick-off, but will be ready to enter the game at any moment. Slagle is not the only back who will give the Crimson forwards plenty to think about, since Williams, Prendergast, and Caulkins, all big factors in the Princeton victory of last year, will see action in tomorrow's contest...
...injury, took his old right-guard post in yesterday's practice, and will start in that position on Saturday. Of the two sophomores who are battling for the left hallback berth. Guarnaccia seems to have the call on French, and is named to be in the backfield at the kick-off against the Orange and Black...
Four Harvard players who started last year's one-sided contest will be in action with the first kick-off today. To be sure, Dartmouth has got the same number of veterans in the lineup, but most of the new Dartmouth faces were substitutes last season, and one, Dooley, was the star of the Harvard-Dartmouth clash two years...