Word: prowesses
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During the half time period an impromptu display of grid prowess was staged by a ragged group of settlement House irregulars who poured down on the track from end zone locations. Admitted by Bill Bingham at Student Council request, they tried to repay the favor by earning their admission and justifying the sum for the rest of the 17,000 crowd...
...thing is certain. The Crimson doesn't need any warning about the prowess of this year's Rutger's team. The Scarlet eleven that will line up in the Stadium this afternoon is the same one which won here last fall 13 to 0, except for a couple of new men who have displaced 1946 starters still with the squad. And football players, like elephants, have long memories...
...first bout with a gang fresh in from the streets. But not, according to Brooks, "if he is a man who is too typically Harvard, complete with accent and fastidious dress. He must be able to speak their language, and above all, he must have a little athletic prowess, because those kids like to respect you as a strong...
...professionally, as it were, with perverts, hopheads, gunmen and bums of all kinds, and he sometimes gets in the habit of popping them a few times, in the privacy of the station house, just for their own good. Being human, he may take a certain natural satisfaction in his prowess and may even decide that he is helping create a better world. He is encouraged in this by the fact that society seldom pays any attention; society, in fact, seldom hears the sound of scuffling, the grunts and the thud of fist on flesh...
Every year some New England college eleven gets touted as a tower in national football and local sports writers start turning the wheels of "Bowl Fever." But just as regularly, some average squad from the West or South invades this citadel of Yankee gridiron prowess and promptly the walls come tumbling down...