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...singular diversion known as Harvard freshman football is on display this week at Soldiers Field. It is the same chaotic show it has always been, primarily because of the recruiting system. Coach Henry Lamar and his players deserve better...
...blame has too often been put on Lamar, especially by his former players, for "ruining" talent that otherwise would have become effective varsity material. The blame is unjust...
Three years ago, I attended a freshman game at Tufts, the season's opener. Tufts had a 32-man squad. Harvard dressed 120 players, and Lamar used them all including seven different quarterbacks. Harvard lost, 15-9, primarily because the Crimson was sending a different team into on every other set of downs...
This fall, more than 150 candidates appeared the first day of drills, and now three weeks later, there are still over 120 practicing regularly. Lamar has three assistants and two former players helping him, but he admitted last Sunday that he was still far from formulating a starting team. It is not surprising. There are 53 high school captains on this squad, 26 All-State performers, six All-Americans. There are 18 quarterbacks...
...Lamar will have to select a starting squad by this afternoon for the Crimson's opener with Columbia tomorrow, and it is likely that he'll change his mind from week to week. He always has. It is likely that by November, many superb players will have seen scant action. There will be mass discontent, a considerable degree of attrition when the squad reports to Yovicsin next year, and a lingering bitterness in several athletes towards Harvard's entire football program...