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Although for a while there was some hope that red-headed Don McNicol, powerhouse fullback from Flushing, N. Y., would be back this season, there is no chance of his return. He is spending his afternoons coaching the spring squad...
Conspicnous by their absence were men such as Dave Goldthwaite, Don McNicol, Johnny Page, and Ray Guild, who were expected to show up. But to bolster his weakened squad, Harlow made several changes. Johnny Teal moves from tackle to fullback, while "Swede" Anderson, a center last year, will be converted into a bucking back...
Practice officially starts Monday, and Harlow hopes to get at least 26 full days of work in before the spring season is over. But it may be a sad affair, for, with Don McNicol's plans still up in the air and several others with their future definitely laid out for the good of Uncle Sam rather than Uncle John H., the outlook when Soldiers Field gridirons open for business again is not too bright...
Harlow confides that he still does not "know whether Forte or Morgan is the better right end," and compares Don McNicol to Vernon Struck "the Magnificent Faker" of the 1937 team. Generalities are kept to a minimum by Harlow, but he does deviate enough to suggest that "I have found through many bitter lessons that there is no substitute for experience, and that Sophomores are a bad risk, particularly in the backfield...
Last such All-team to appear in the nation's presses, the AP awarded six other Harlowmen with honorable mention: Loren MacKinney, triple threat end, both tackles, Tom Gardiner and Vern Miller, center Johnny Page, and backs Don McNicol and Captain Franny...