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...Professor: "We understand what you mean, Dick, but I'd like to see you after school for a few minutes. Now, let's hear about our other mid-western invasion from Ducky Pond of Yale...
...gaslit era before cinema and radio, St. Nicholas was the No. 1 U. S. magazine for young people. Like the old quarry where swimming was forbidden, like the first ice on the pond in winter, it was an essential part of childhood-a storehouse of fruitful articles and hair-raising fiction for adolescents...
...start of last year's schedule sports scribes chose to minimize the loss of the mighty Clint Frank and predicted a better-than-average record for Ducky Pond's machine. The Elis went on to stagger through the most disastrous season in Yale annals, winning two out of eight games. Now the situation is reversed. With experts foretelling nothing but lean days for the Bulldog, there are few individuals in the vicinity of New Haven who give Yale a fifty-fifty chance of improving even on last year's performance...
Certainly the problem which most concerns the Blue coaching staff right now lies in the backfield. Not one member of the quartet which started against Harvard last fall is available. Had not Ray Anderson, a Junior, run afoul of scholastic ineligibility the outlook might be brighter. For Pond's chief need is what has come to be known since the invasion of Poland as a blitzkrieg back, and Anderson came near filling the bill in his brilliant appearances against Princeton and Harvard last Fall...
...Brooks, another Junior letterman, whose one-man Maginot Line almost halted Michigan last Fall, seems to be definitely in at one tackle post, but the other remains wide open. Pond is testing three men for this assignment, Seniors George Seabury and Cy Taylor, and Junior Jerry Knapp. So far there has been little to choose between them. Taylor is a veteran letterman, while Knapp was ineligible last Fall after starring on his Freshman team...