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Western Maryland is best known around Cambridge because Harlow was head football coach and director of athletics at that institution from 1926 until April, 1935, when he was named to succeed Edward Casey '19 as pigskin mentor at Harvard, Line Coach Harold Kopp is a graduate of Western Maryland, having captained one of Harlow's teams there. The newly-scheduled contest will be the first gridiron meeting ever held between the two colleges...
After ten grinding minutes of play, with both squads resorting to conservative football, Farrell threw the game's first pass, and Fitz snagged the sagging pigskin on the Eli 15. An off-tackle play saw Farrell cut away from two tacklers to score. Bucky Harrison thumped the wet ball through the uprights for the seventh point...
Worried no doubt, about the prospects of a tie, Farrell patiently waited until he got his hands on the pigskin once more, and taking a significant part in the down-field march, plunged over from the 25-yard stripe on a neat guard trap. To conclude the half, Tom Mosely pitched a neat aerial to end Bill Fitz to give the Crimson a 20 point lead...
...first half, Lowell drove into the Elephants' backyard on sterling runs by Austy Lyne, Loring Briggs, Roger Wales, and Herb Allard, but was unable to get beyond the 20. The second half was played on more even terms as Eliot's Tener Eckleberry tossed the pigskin to Dave Abbot and Bob Morgan for their most sizeable chunks of yardage during the afternoon. Neither team was able to further its scoring threats past the 20-yard stripe, although Lowell rolled up more yardage than Eliot...
...since the days of the Four Horsemen has Old Man Money run so rampant on the nation's football gridirons. As the turnstiles click out the greatest attendance record in history, coaches, college fathers and alumni are keeping cars tuned to the future of dear old Siwash, its pigskin stalwarts and the stadium mortgage. As is invariably the case with many Universities that over-emphasize the fall sport, most everyone has a finger in the glorious November bonanza; the lesser sports survive because 50,000 partisans watch the classic tussle with Toothpaste Tech and pay well for the privilege; fresh...