Word: pote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backfield, tailback Pote Petrille, wingback Nick Athans, and quarterback Hugh Edmonds, all veterans of former Crimson Varsity and Jayvee elevens, are now back following leaves of absence. Other men, notably tailbacks Jim Noonan and Chuck Roche, quarterback Bill Henry, and tackle Doug Bradlee are looking more poised than they did last fall for Dick Harlow...
Commodore Pote Putnam's navy--three dinghies--takes to the waves this afternoon in a race to the finish, with MIT, the terror of the local seas. The craft will maneuver in the Basin...
...that is not all. Pote Garland, as close to a one-man track team as Harvard has known in years, enters the mountain troops, and will not be around this semester. The giant Sophomore, an end on the Crimson eleven, was a four-event winner in last spring's Yale meet, and local experts touted him as a future Al Blozis. Garland had done better than 49 feet in the shot...
...other Harvard divot-diggers, Pote Macgowan, Henry Shepley (moved up to number two), Bill Allis, Art Tarlow, and Don Davis took their contests by convincing margins. The tightest battle ending on the fifteenth green. The Tuckerman-Allis duo finished all even with their opponents, to account for the half-point in the summary...
Most conspicuous in their absence were some of the headline tsars of last year. Captain "Guieseppe Joe" Gardella, "Blind Pote" Elser, Bill Brown and Joe Koufman of course are out of the lineup for good--via the graduation route...