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Also at 175, or possibly 165, are Andy Lewis, John Howard, and George Turner. Two of Jordan's football linemen, Howie Houston and Chief Bender, will carry the burden in the heavyweight departments left open by Pete Fuller's departure. Jordan claims Houston is quick and has tremendous physical prowess but "he's not learning much about wrestling...
...Kansas, Mrs. D. O. Durr peered out of the snow-framed windows of her farmhouse and, like many other farm wives, knew what to expect. Soon refugees started straggling in from nearby highway No. 96-a couple with a three-months-old child, a 90-year-old man, stranded linemen. For two days and nights, Mrs. Durr had 39 guests. As the storm raged on, they feasted on corned beef brisket, little pig sausage, green beans, dozens of eggs and gallons of milk. The women shared the beds; the men slept on the floor. Mrs. Durr wouldn't take...
...since 1941 everybody was happy. The team was happy, the coaches were content, everybody else was lost for three days in a pleasant haze. Yale showed the same plays and the same backs that had been invincible for two years--and lost. Crimson runners broke away for long runs, linemen blocked like tigers, and the team came from behind in the last period to win going away...
Despite Herman's claim that his line contains the Seven Dwarfs, pound for pound they just about equal the Crimson starting line. No one this season claimed Yale's biggest trouble is a lack of capable linemen. Most attacks center around weak pass defending and line-backing, departments in which the Eli were supposed to have most of their returning lettermen...
...this was a pale fight compared to the 1937 game in the Stadium, Harvard, with Vernon Struck, Frank Foley, and Macdonald operating in the backfield, had exploded just once--against Princeton--and seemed doomed to lose to a Yale team which had big fast linemen and a backfield led by All-American Clint Frank...