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...Edmund R. Davis '46 "out-standing player of the year," Harvard's gridmen collaborated with the H.A.A. to sponsor the 1944 football banquet. Thursday night in the Lowell Dining Hall. Chester M. Pierce '48, right rackle, made the presentations of a gold football to Davis, right guard, and a pigskin inscribed "to Wally from the team" to Walter H. Trumbull, Jr. '46, quarterback and captain of the squad...
Deceptive running by Glenn Schultz who played despite an ankle injury and Cowen brought the pigskin down to the from which point Navin went over standing up for the initial score. A bad pass from center was responsible for the missed extra point...
...makes or breaks this offensive formation, for he is intrusted with both the deception and the power of the attack. Really the only man for the spectator to watch if he wants to see the plays unfold in true Harlow fashion, he is the one who gets the pigskin on almost every snap in this lineup, spins and fakes it to one, two, and sometimes three-on an end around--different men, often smashing at the line then himself. Of course, added deception comes in the fact that on a fast-breaking smash, the ball sometimes goes straight...
These findings are from Denver's Security Life & Accident Co.'s unique, five-year-old experiment in insuring high-school athletes against injury. With 60 new pigskin policies written last week, the company expects to have 250 (covering some 8,000 boys) in force by midseason. On its $2-per-player premium rate covering hospital and doctor's bills, the company has lost money but gained much good will and many young life insurance prospects. Its statistics also enhance longevity prospects: one western schoolboy conference, for instance, now requires a brisk warm-up before the second-half...
...weekend, Saturday afternoon's Stadium features provided some 8,000 fans with double-demonstrations of smooth marching as Harvard's undergraduate naval units passed in formal review before their commanding officer, Captain C. H. J. Keppler, USN, and later all members of the informal Varsity squad helped carry the pigskin through, around, and over the Bates College eleven for a 43 to 6 score...