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Thirty gridiron stars were given Honorable Mention. Leading the list of six Harvard players was Harold Keohane, who was yesterday elected captain for next season. Two linemen, Peter Briggs and Robert Foster, also made the team and Harvard also dominated the choices for the backfield with three: Charley Ravenel, Chet Boulris, and Sam Halaby...
...play descended to the grammar-school level, with both teams fumbling the ball around as if it were a live coal. The Crimson had made no first downs (and almost no yardage) in its first five offensive sorties, and general consternation was mounting in the Harvard stands, when suddenly Ravenel shifted his attack into high gear...
...pocket-sized quarterback began to call his own number at this point, and he got results fast. Squirming through the Yale line on "sneaks," and rolling out around the ends, Ravenel personally gained 52 of the 73 yards covered by the Crimson in its first touchdown drive. And it was quite fitting that he himself registered that score (at the very moment the first half ended) on a five-yard roll-out to his right...
...other Crimson backs, perhaps inspired by Ravenel's example, began to run with increased vigor and finesse; and suddenly there was no longer any contest. The varsity pretty much abandoned its running plays between the tackles, and concentrated on Yale's flanks, where very little resistance was encountered...
Chet Boulris and Larry Repsher, as well as Ravenel, could gain almost at will on these plays, as the Crimson attacked from a new formation featuring two backfield flankers on the same side. Fullback Sam Halaby was able to cut down the opposing end nearly every time, and other Harvards delivered crunching blocks downfield, so the ball-carrier's job was made that much easier...