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There was one hitch. "Life" wanted a picture of the pigskin pushers at home, viz. the locker room. The H.A.A. did not like the idea. So "Life" has had to send home for an artist, who is due to arrive today and draw his conception of what the locker room should look like...
...ball finally landed almost on the goal line, and then god and the Deacons got together. instead of bouncing into the end zone the ornery pigskin went off at right angles toward the sideline, going out on the one foot mark...
...year tenure here. The enemy starting backfield is one of the dog-gonedest scoringest concoctions ever put together, with Captain Bob MacLeod, who has hit pay territory 19 times in 19 straight frays, leading the procession. After him comes Bill "Mudder" Hutchinson and fullback Colby Howe, both fleet-footed pigskin toters who can fill the bill at either end of aerials. There is also sophomore Sanford Courter, starting quarterback, who has given promise of being another in a decade of great Dartmouth backs...
SCENE FOUR. The hard leather toe meets the oval pigskin an instant after the whistle blows. Standing on the five-yard line, he watches the course of the ball through the air towards him. Swiftly it rises until it seems to be higher than the rim of the stadium behind it up and up in a graceful are. His eyes glue themselves to this careening brown speck. He remains motionless, staring at it in fascination like one hypnotized. . . . This is a game, old boy; it has started now. Forget that hollow stomach feeling. This is a football...
...Besides the pigskin, my other interests are: swimming in the summer, tobogganing in the winter, and dancing all the year round to anybody's music, although my weakness is Calloway. Want to be in on a secret? Yes?--'I'd give my best pal away for Calloway.' (Yeah, man!!). His music does something to me. I hear that 'swing' is going out of style. Darn it! (oops, pardon my French). What are your views on music and orchestras...