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...whipped along the back-country gravel roads, stirring up a trail of dust. Braking to a stop alongside a flat field, the car's slight and sunburned driver sighted down mile-long rows of tiny green shoots, planted the week before. "Ain't that beautiful?" grinned Lester Pfister. He raced on to another field, wiggled his wiry 126 lbs. through a barbed-wire fence, and squatted on the ground where one of his tractors had just passed. "Everything's good," he said, feeling the soil. "You can tell it's time for planting when...
Yale was fully aware that if it could stop McNicol over the guards, it could probably stop Harvard. The Eli defense was designed for that purpose, with its linemen bunched together and ganged up on the two great Crimson guards, Peabody and Dick Pfister...
That was the year of Captain Joe Gardella, Franny Lee, and Charley Spreyer, when the blossoming line which featured Chub Peabody, Loren MacKinney, Dick Pfister, Tom Gardiner, and Vern Miller was coming into its own. Remnants of the class of 1945--and there are many--will be eager to relate the 14 to 0 pasting handed the Bulldogs in 1941, when Peabody, later to be named on everybody's All-America list, played the entire game with charley-horses in both legs, and still was the bulwark of the Crimson forward wall...
...hitting operators here and there, but towards the ends the situation becomes a little confused. In any case, the center of the line--from guard to guard--is set--as one of the toughest, hottest little centers of any line Harlow has ever coached. And that includes Peabody--Page--Pfister...
With the departure of Dick Pfister '42, last year's Varsity shot star, and other men like Pete garland, who took four events in the Freshman meet with Yale last year, While Fisher '45 now is the only experienced hurler left on the squad...