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Willing Loser. Camille was one of twelve children born on his father's river barge. He went to work on a farm at the age of twelve, grew up to be a side show wrestler at country fairs. A straightforward ox of a man, Bombois still has all the complacent assurance that size and strength can impart. Nevertheless, he deliberately lost almost all his wrestling matches. "The crowd was more generous," Bombois explains, "when I let myself be beaten by the local champion. I cashed in on their good will, until once I lost my temper with an opponent...
...Harvard rooters were short of feminine companionship there was still at least one hand too many on the Crimson side of the field. According to a local sports writer's story three-handed Dick Harlow after the game simultaneously patted Ox DaGrosa's head, shook his hand, and stroked his shoulder. This probably was the neatest trick of the week even for a man referred to by another imaginative scribe as a "Machievellian fern fancier...
Although the verbal battle between Dick Harlow and Crusader head mentor "Ox" DaGrosa over an allegedly illegal screen-pass used by the latter has filled the local dailies for the past week, it is unlikely that spectators will get to see the play today. Referees also read the papers. Stadium Lincups Kickoff at 2 O'Clock Florontino (180) lc (188) Halliday Houston (200) lt (251) Palmer Drvaric (190) lg (259) DiGangi Stone (180) c (198) Deffley Feinberg (183) rg (192) Relliy Pierce (215) rt (240) Parker Hill (180) re (205) Costello O'Donnell (160) qb (194) Brennan Noonan...
...crunching fullback in the true Osmanski tradition, will undoubtedly get the nod at full. Bobby Farrell, a former Regimental sprint champ while at Boston English High, will be at right half for the Cross and, if the Crusaders receive, Walter Brennan will be pulling the QB strings of Ox DaGrosa's T-formation...
...Wait Coulson, star end, had the last word. "Ox DaGrosa said he's going to play from concrete to concrete. Well, if we have anything to say about it, we'll have Holy Cross playing in the nickel seats...