Word: pennsylvania
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Died. Robert Greene Elliott, 65, for 13 years official executioner for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts; of coronary embolism; in Richmond Hill, N. Y. Named for a Methodist minister who opposed capital punishment, tall, grey Robert Elliott electrocuted 400 persons, five of them women. Among them: Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Two-Gun Crowley, Sacco & Vanzetti, Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Successor to his $150-a-night job: Joseph Francel, 42, American Legionnaire, garageman and electrician, who has already officiated once, when Robert Elliott was confined to his bed last summer...
...Webb of the Globe: "It will provide the Crimson with their first pressure game of the year. . . . The Harvard defense is still untested. . . . Pennsylvania naturally ranks as a favorite before the game. . . Penn has a dangerous air game...
...Jones of the Globe: "This is Harvard's first crucial game, while Pennsylvania has had two tough ones. The outcome is problematical. It will be a close game all the way, and though Harvard may pull a couple of touchdowns, it's really a toss...
From last week's series of upsets, the anonymous CRIMSON predictors emerged with a dubious 677 percentage. Nothing daunted and mumbling something about "Hard luck," the prognosticators once more attach themselves out on a limb and whisper: Harvard 20 Pennsylvania 14 Yale 7 Army 6 Princeton 13 Columbia 6 Dartmouth 20 Lafayette 6 Alabama 16 Tennessee 13 Cornell 13 Penn State 7 Temple 19 Boston College 14 Minnesota 7 Ohio State 6 Northwestern 12 Wisconsin 6 Texas A. & M. 14T. C. U. 12 Michigan 61 Chicago 0 Notre Dame 13 Navy 0 Pittsburgh 20 Duquesne 7 Holy Cross 14 Brown...
...Rainwater, but Allen all, Huey has high hopes. Prognosticating, HARVARD 20, U. of Pennsylvania 14. Yale? Who cares--Frick...