Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Practice begins earlier than usual this year to make room for three days of general conditioning before the candidates are divided into individual House teams. Nine squads, seven from the Houses, one from Dudley, and one culled from the upperclassmen in the Yard, will compete for the grid title now held by Kirkland House and the 150 point handicap toward the Straus Trophy...
With the opening game slated for October 8, Samborski released the names of eight of his nine coaches and promised that the last will be named in the near future. The mentors already announced were Charley Mains, B.U.; Adam Elcewicz, Fordham; Frank Frisoli, Harvard; Thomas Curtin, B.C.; John Lindberg, Carnegie Tech; Dave Palmer, Hobart; Bill Newstetter, Pitt; and Dick Van Deusen, Williams...
...biggest single group, 14 English students here on visas, heads a list that includes men from practically every part of the world. Nine refugee scholars from Germany came here with the intention of eventually becoming citizens...
...that some heavy tackle new to the squad "will pan out later" or some tolerable looking passer "will complete a few in actual combat." This year the optimism is not strained. While leveller heads will insist that every team in the country is loaded, that the best bet on nine out of any ten games this fall will be even money, and that the Crimson in particular may well be outweighed by every eleven it faces, even Western Maryland and Dartmouth, the average follower of Dick Harlow's 1947 forces is bound to succumb to a feeling of exuberant hope...
...thing, there are many familiar faces on Soldiers Field from three successful Crimson teams of last year. A Varsity which won seven of nine-games has returned 20 lettermen, including the outstanding halfback threat Thomas (Chip) Gannon, who runs best to port and huris passes lefthanded. There is six-foot-three 200-pound plunging fullback Captain Vince Moraveo who averaged six yards a line buck in one contest last fall when a three-yard plunge for a touchdown brought his average down, and whose virtual loss from the Yale game with an injury was a mortal blow to the team...