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Further investigation into the action of the Yale Faculty Committee in removing Platt and Scott, prominent football players, from probation, revealed last night that a total of 150 men took the fall makeup examinations this year and that until two years ago any man who so much as passed a makeup examine September was immediately taken off probation...
This statement was apparently made on insufficient evidence. It was not until the full list of names was announced by the Dean that it was learned that Scott and Platt had both passed the examinations, and that only Gallagher would be lost to the squad...
Information was received from New Haven last night that two prominent Eli football players, Bill Platt and Morri Scott, who, with Frank Gallagher, sub-Varsity center last fall, were announced on Friday as being ineligible, have just been taken off probation...
...list. Those who merely pass remain ineligible until January. Definite information could not be obtained on what was considered a sufficiently high grade since this is purely a matter of discretion and rests on the faculty's attitude toward each individual. Before the Associated Press story on Friday concerning Platt and Scott, 15 men had already been removed and last night another 33 were added to the list...
Scott was regular tackle on the "Iron Men" eleven of 1934 and Platt was captain of the 1935 Freshman team. Gallagher, who did not make a high enough grade this fall in the opinion of the faculty, was a substitute center last year...