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This year the same scene may well be repeated. Army, winner of last year's meet by a score of 57-38, has 14 returning lettermen and its best team ever. Most of its freestylers will be starting for the third straight year and most of them were winners in last year's meet. Harvard is a definite underdog, but Harvard has Bill Brooks...
Only in the medley is the Crimson without proven strength. Lettermen Earl Shoerman and Henry Frey are possibilities, as is last year's freshman captain, Al Rose, who also swims the butterfly. Brooks is famous for surprises, though, and almost anyone might turn up in this event during the season...
...fact, the team is so strong and so deep that the illness of two of the top lettermen probably won't make any difference when the squad faces M.I.T. tonight. The season-opening match will take place at M.I.T...
...spirit might be willing, but it takes a powerful amount of flesh to make a football winner?and the most optimistic experts did not figure Notre Dame for much this year. The school hadn't had a winning season in five years; 22 out of 38 lettermen had graduated from last year's squad that lost seven of its nine games. Parseghian rebuilt the team as though he were running a fire sale...
This was the Yale team, packed with 18 lettermen and a bunch of good sophomores, that was supposed to be the leading contender for the Ivy championship. Harvard's inexperienced line was going to weigh the Crimson down...