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...numbers and experience of the hopefuls who turned out at Newell Boat-house yesterday are any criteria, Coach Tom Bolles may well mold a 1947 crew worthy of the best of the best pre-war Crimson eights...
With the number of tennis courts available down from the pre-war 90 to 18, the of those remaining will be limited to members of the Varsity, the freshman squad, and freshmen taking physical education, he said. All other students will be allowed on the courts only after the other groups have been handled...
...quarterback post with assurance--and with ability. Besides handing the ball in the straight T. Which Harlow is using this year, Frank runs and passes when the occasion arises. He played for Fordham for a year back in 1943. Behind him are Tommy Tennant, another letterman from last fall, pre-war candidate Bill Henry, and Henry Goethals...
There's a glimmer of genuine pre-war Harvard around Cambridge these days, and it isn't House food. A glance at that high board fence circling the practices field out at Soldiers Field tells you that something of the good old days, the Irivial old days, is back. Just the fact of that fence is sort of reminiscent: before you even reach for your press pass you push football up out of its three-year hideout, onto the front page. Sure there was a Yale game last year (0-28), but that. . .well...
...looks now as though pre-war deception is going to stay pre-war, for the elevens behind that board fence are running from a straight "T" this year. Gone is the "Harlow Wing", the "Semi-T", or whatever by any other name was a modified single-wing. Gone, too, are the days of the long-suffering Harvard blocking back, men like George Helden and Swede Anderson who went a season through without carrying the ball. Today's quarterback has got to have a touch of Vernon Struck in him, a touch of the fullback who made the Harlow system famous...