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Besides these Rams, Crowley has "Sweet" Lalanne, North Carolina halfback who was named on many All-American teams, Lou Bufalino, who was Cornell's most effective back against Harvard last fall, and Landsburg, a Sophomore star for the Big Red last season. Alabama's former excellent kicker, Sanford, is expected to handle this department capably for the navy team...
Loren MacKinney, he admits, was "one of the best all-around football players I've ever coached," but although "his kicking was great, we really hurt ourselves and detracted from his fame by using him as a kicker because he was simply marvelous down-the-field under punts when he wasn't kicking...
...defense boasts Foster at center half with Steve Glidden and either Apthorp or Bill Cook flanking him. In Dick Forster, Polly has found an exceptionally powerful, two-foot kicker, who in time is expected to equal the feats of Olie Taylor and Bab Harrison who became first-string Varsity fullbacks this fall. Hugh Hadley, another long-distance booter, pairs with Forster...
...Place-kicker Hank Vander Eb, who starred in last year's Harvard-Pennsylvania 10 to 10 tie, will make the trip again this year. Although unable to appear at afternoon practices, Vander Eb has been working on his kicking every morning and will doubtless be available throughout the season whenever his Crimson teammates need an extra point or field goal...
Perhaps the most serious setback which the team is still recuperating from is the loss of halfback Charlie Spreyer who was "caught in the draft." There are other problems, however Hank Vander Eb, expert place kicker, is married, and his status is doubtful, while Juniors Mort Waldstein and Stan Durwood, both of whom had been counted on heavily, are not playing since they are both on probation...