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Although holding its own for the scoreless first quarter in a game played at Andover Saturday Coach Chief Boston's Yardling pigskin chasers ended up on the short end of a 19 to 6 score as a powerful Andover Academy team continued its undefeated ways...
Second tally came late in the fourth quarter, when Danny Gorenstein tossed the pigskin to the ever-present Cummings who went to the two. Gorenstein piled through center on two plays to push the total to 12, and to cap the climax, Cummings snatched a three-yard for the conversion...
...scholarship boy from Covina, California hadn't a Chinaman's chance of intercepting it. He had been seriously critized immediately after the game for missing the break that might have gotten the Crimson off to an early lead. If he had been able to get his hands on the pigskin it would have been a sure score as the remaining twenty-five yards or so to the goal was as bare as the midriff on one of next year's bathing suits...
Defensively, too, there was little to gain from scouting the game, as Coach Snavely used an unorthodox defense that could be used to stop only one thing--the screwball Syracuse attack--in which the center faced his own goal line when centering the ball and passed the pigskin through the air end over end instead of in the usual spiral fashion...
Procurement of bookbinding supplies recently has been a particularly knotty problem, for the war has affected the whole industry. With the United States almost completely dependent on foreign imports for the best grades of leather bindings, shipments of such goods as calf, pigskin, Levant, and morocco have practically ceased; already one ship with some of its cargo destined for the Harvard Bindery has been sunk...