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...What'd he say? . . . Mumbles says we've got to get rid of Kiss Antel right away." There was a knock on the door. With a reluctant sigh I put down my bound volume of Dick Tracy, muttered "Wait a minute," and tossed off the last swallow of a pre-season Tom and Jerry...
Bled white by injuries and academic troubles this fall, the Varsity includes four men who would probably not have made the trip if Jaakko's pre-season plans had materialized...
...system cannot avert injuries when the men playing House football are in poor physical condition. When players complained of the strict conditioning program of 1942 and 1943, a softic Athletic Department cased required training and the injury list blossomed. This year with only a week and a half of pre-season practice and only one day of practice per week, players are unable to maintain the stamina and hardness necessary to avoid injury. To add further to a general picture of murderous laxity, House teams do not always observe the meager one day of practice each week, individuals neglect...
...surgeons fees expense paid seems slight recompense for an avoidable injury. As long as intramural football operates on a collegiate level, there should be some attempt to prepare players for big-time games. A smaller schedule, with a total of twenty-five games and three weeks of pre-season training, would ease the pressure on teams now held to a thirty-five game schedule with only a short practice period. A conditioning program that included compulsory exercise and a rule forbidding late season entry would provide better injury protection. The present condition of House football shocked a hardened Varsity coach...
...frustration of pessimistic forecasters, Harvard has bounced back from its 47 to 0 shellacking at the hands of Virginia and in this week's practice sessions looked more like a football team--with greater accuracy and more drive--than at any time since the pre-season scrimmages against Boston College...