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Things at Palmer Stadium turned out pretty much the way people close to both squads had speculated. By land, Harvard was king, grinding out 260 yards rushing to a meagre 31 for the Nassau eleven. But in the air, sparked by a deadly accurate forward passer in Carl Leibert, and two rangy, glue-fingered ends in Tom Finical and Bill Gallagher, the Tigers were always dangerous...
...Crimson's pass defense, it was neither superlative nor hopeless. Harlow declared after the game that he thought Paul Governali's work with the Varsity in last week's practice session had been of considerable benefit. On several of the successful Tiger aerials, the Nassau receivers were covered, but managed to outwrestle their Crimson defenders and grab the ball...
Harvard policy on passes in the flat, such as that thrown to Ernie Ransome for the first Nassau touchdown, is to allow the catch to be made, and then have the covering end hit the receiver. But Ransome cluded Wally Flynn at the line of scrimmage, and then hipped his way past at least four other Harvard tacklers on his 52-yard journey...
...stalwart gang of some 60 Harvards added insult to injury after the Princeton squeaker last Saturday, when they outfought about 300 Nassau followers in a battle for the goalposts. The Princeton Freshmen had been instructed the preceding night to defend the sacred posts with their very lives in the event of a Crimson victory, but the brothers, were unable to withstand a determined Harvard line...
Ninety-eight minutes of as rugged soccer as Old Nassau has seen in many a moon resulted, in a 1 to 1 tie as Coach "Mac" MacDonald's Varsity booters and the Orange and Black from Princeton fought each other to a standstill last Saturday at Jungletown...