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Ever since Dick Harlow bade a teary farewell at the close of the 1941 season to the best Varsity line Soldiers Fields has seen in recent years--a forward wall which included such rugged characters as Club Peabody Dick Pflster, Loren MacKinney, Tom Gardiner and Vern Miller--he's been wistfully seeking its equal. To predict that this year's Beef Trust will be a replica of that famous pre-war predecessor is wishful thinking only for the most partial of Crimson rooters, but a midsummer glance at the situation has enough bright spots to lead to moderately pleasant speculation...
With a schedule fully as tough as last year's and one game longer, Harlow is faced with the problem of building up virtually an entirely new team, for no longer can he boast a line composed of players like Chub Peabody, Dick Pflster, and Loren MacKinney, to mention only a few of the "seven blocks of granite," or a backfield of Lee, Heiden and McNicol...
...almost from scratch. Of the four or five outstanding underclassmen who won letters last fall only Captain Don Forte has survived the accelerated academic program and will be back for another season. In addition to the terrific June graduation toll which took Chub Peabody, Loren MacKinney, Vern Miller, Dick Pflster, Captain Franny Lee, George Heiden, Tom Gardiner, etc., Juniors Don McNicol, Jack Morgan, and Johnny Page will play no more football for Harvard...
Leading the Crimson contingent will be 1942-43 captain hurdler Don MacKinnon, who will enter both the high and low events. Dick Pflster and Pete Garland will participate in the shot and discus, and both Fishers (Jack and Bill), with Tom White, will toss the hammer...
Shot Put--Won by Sandy Wheeler. Second, Pete Garland. Third, Dick Pflster...