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...With no lettermen from pre-war teams returning, Boston in building his squad almost from scratch and dolefully admits that "this year we are probably just going along for the ride." "If we win any of our major meets this year, I will be satisfied," year will give the boys lots of experience, and by next year we ought to have a hot outfit...
Nowhere else in the country are activities so open and patently commercialized. The colleges in the southwest (Texas) Conference have strict rules against proselytizing ballplayers. They have rules against dubious employment for athletes. But lettermen still go their quiet way, sweeping down the chapel steps, waking the dean, winding the steeple clock. A prominent Oklahoma coach recently told the press that the members of his squad were making more money than he was. The college coach who is better paid than his college president is not the rarity that was. But the story of the western halfback who was injured...
...mentor was treated yesterday to a showing of the movies of the Harvard-Ohio State game in New York last year, in which the proteges of ex-Coach Floyd Stahl carried the New England championship laurels unsuccessfully into the N.C.A.A. national championships. Last night he met the six returning lettermen from last year's squad, and surveyed generally the turnout for the coming campaign...
With four victories and one tie behind them Coach "Poley" Guydar's Yardlings are facing their sternest test of the season against the Red and Gray from Exeter. Although the Exetonians have not had a particularly impressive record this full they have six returning lettermen from last year and have improved with every game...
Boasting 14 returning lettermen, the Jumbos will bring to the Stadium a team far more mature than the aggregation which edged out an informal Harvard eleven by a 7-0 score last fall. The roster abounds with 24-and 25-year olds, many of whom have been hardened by service experiences, and the combined tonnage of the Jumbo line comes close to the distance between two stars...