Word: pre-season
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Exeter, on the other hand, had four games under its belt going into yesterday's contest and a good deal more pre-season training than Munro's charges. "They wore us out," Munro commented, "They dressed over thirty guys and were running them in and out every minute...
...does this sports epithet come in more handy than at one of those tailend games when the voice of Phil Rizzutto, By Saam or Jack Brickhouse mysteriously fades into the voice of Don Meredith, Frank Gifford, or Pat Summerall. It's that period when opening football games and even pre-season shinny matches crowd out the boxscores or relegate the baseball standings in losing towns' newspapers to the last page of the sports sections...
...contest was the first major scrimmage of the pre-season for the Harvard gridders. An apropos cliche would be that it posed more questions than it answered...
...first unit did well enough. It scored once on a pass from senior quarterback Milt Holt to pre-season All-American senior split end Pat McInally. Besides that scoring effort the first team sustained some other drives but the Crimson would not put it in the end zone a second time...
...addition to such budget cuts as bus trips to Columbia and Princeton instead of plane flights, cutting back on the training table fare and holding down the number of candidates invited back to pre-season camp, the men behind the scenes also plan to repeat last season's series of special promotions. Tickets for the Yale game will be going up $1 (to $8) in another effort to raise more revenue...