Word: pre-season
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...Michie Stadium for several thousand Harvard spectators, has apparently acted in haste and with indiscretion. Several hundred of the best seats in the Crimson sections, seats which should have gone to students, alumni, and former "H" men, were withdrawn by West Point Officials for "non-working press and pre-season commitments." It now appears that these tickets have been sold by the Army box office into channels which brought them to New York speculators for public sale...
...Evidently the spirit noted by visitors to Cambridge in the pre-season practice sessions is genuine and has filled the well-trained ball-handlers with an eagerness to put Harvard back on the football...
Back in Cambridge, one particularly encouraging note was the absence of injuries. Rocky Stone, who has been out a week, was exercising under the canny eye of Jimmy Cox, and may be ready soon. Jerry Bahn, who broke an arm in pre-season workouts, appeared and began preliminary conditioning work. At the time of his injury Bahn ranked well up in the defensive ends...
Houston has already been included on several pre-season all-American list. The Saturday Evening Post has him on its three-squad team, along with Columbia's passing whiz Gene Rossides and two other players from the East. Howie still wears the same size hat he wore last year, though...
...DiBlasio have been doing most of the punting for the Crimson in pre-season drills and may drop back out of the line to perform that duty this fall. Both are carrying on the tradition of Harvard's famous punting end, Loren McKinney...