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...second field, the Bunnies will tackle the Dudley Ramblers in what should be a tight game. So far this season, the Ramblers have failed to live up to their pre-season expectations, winning but one game, tying one, and losing one. Leverett, however, has two defeats compared to a lucky 7 to 6 win over the Elephants. When the final whistle blows, it should be Dudley by one touchdown...
Other Southern standouts: Mississippi State, pre-season dark horse which trampled Alabama last week (14-to-0) for its second Southeastern Conference victory; and University of Texas, led by triple-threat Pete Layden, one of this year's most versatile backs. Last week Texas trounced Louisiana State...
Tune-up games, though never used at Harvard in recent years, are not uncommon in the Ivy League. Columbia staged an informal affair with a neighboring school the week before running into Brown, and Pennsylvania gave its Sophomores valuable game experience in two pre-season workouts with Bucknell and Muhlenburg...
Only this year has pre-season contact work been a deciding factor in the outcome of the opening game on the slate. Formerly at the top of the Crimson schedule there was always a pushover game that proved to be little more than a long drink of water. Last year it was Amherst, in other years Bates and Brown were "breather" material in which it was possible to use the veterans only sparingly and concentrate instead on seasoning the all-important reserves for actual use in the "headline" games later...
...Noble and Greenough eleven and Andover's Fisher brothers, a center and a back, sons of Harvard's ex-Varsity mentor Robert Fisher, lead the prep school contingent at the moment, but as usual the bulk of the team will consist of unknowns who must prove themselves in pre-season practice...