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Fyock started in the absence of the team's top two tailbacks, Matt Botsford and Jim Joslin, both out with injuries. Botsford, suffering from an arm injury inflicted in the Ohio game, worked out lightly in pads, and avoided contact work. Jordan is not sure when the sophomore tailback will be able to return to full-scale action...
...this afternoon would disagree with Princeton partisans who called the win a fluke. No one can say positively that the absence of Royce Flippin and Dick Frye plus the limited participation of Dick Martin and Dick Emery hurt the home team more than the visitors were handicapped by losing Matt Botsford and Dexter Lewis for the whole game and Jim Joslin for the last three quarters...
...Crimson, too, is without a star tailback. Sophomore Matt Botsford, the team's leading ground gainer and second in rushing yardage in the Ivy League, injured his arm last week and probably will watch the game from the sidelines. But his replacement sophomore Jim Joslin, like the rest of this team, is no man to underrate. Joslin weighs 195 pounds, he can run very hard, he can pass, he can punt, and he can play defense. Joslin's only trouble this season stems from his own nervousness, not from opposing linemen. Botsford is a very poised football player who gets...
Injured tailback Matt Botsford watched the end of practice in street cloths with his arm in a sling. He is on the game list, however, which means he may dress for tomorrow's contest against Princeton. Dexter Lewis will also make the trip to Princeton but will watch the game as a spotter...
With tailback Matt Botsford still out--probably for the rest of the week--Jim Joslin continued to work in the principal varsity backfield yesterday, as the Crimson again drilled for the Princeton game...