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...Desci, another more-than-six-footer, will handle the center spot with some assistance from Gantt. Despite his height, Desci has looked fast and tricky under the boards in pre-season practice...
...chard, were still in the market for a good stiff workout. Last week's Scoreboard indicated that they might get one, or even two, in their upcoming games with Pennsylvania and Navy. Penn pricked Columbia's little bubble (32-7) and Navy finally lived up to pre-season raves by walloping Michigan (33-7). Some experts, squinting hard, thought they saw trouble ahead for the super-dupers...
...Midshipmen hardly looked like one of the two teams voted most likely to succeed in 1945. Army, the experts' other pre-season choice, did. Last week, the Cadets' well-seasoned T attack steamrollered Duke 4840-13 for victory No. 5. It was such easy going that All-America Fullback Felix ("Doc") Blanchard and All-America Halfback Glenn ("Junior") Davis-Mister Inside and Mister Outside -had what amounted to a day off: they scored only three touchdowns, let the second-stringers have a whirl...
...South, Alabama's blond thread-needle passer, 180-lb. Harry Gilmer, star of last year's Sugar Bowl game, put 'Bama on a pre-season par with powerhoused Georgia Tech and Duke-which last week flattened South Carolina...
...Bloody Island." Halsey became a hero and a four-star admiral. He took off the pins with three stars on them, ordered them sent to the widows of Callaghan and Scott. "Tell them," said he, "that it was their husbands' fighting guts that won me my four stars." Pre-Season Talk. When he sits in his high, steel chair on the flag bridge of a super-battleship, Halsey's wide, thin-lipped mouth with downturned corners looks tight enough. But he is a good talker in private conversation, he-man variety; his give-&-take with his top staff...