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Massachusetts, which upset the Crimson early in the season in the first meeting of the two teams since 1916, has had a spotty record since then. Momentum from the Stadium win enabled the Redmen to top the University of Connecticut by one touchdown a week later. Tiny Rhode Island, however, ran up a 52-6 score; Northeastern walked away with a 39-0 victory; and Vermont edged the Redmen, 27 to 25, in successive weeks...
...University of Massachusetts played Harvard is football three times before 1916 and failed to score a touchdown. In the 38 years since then, the UMass Redmen have not met any Ivy League college on the gridiron. When they enter Harvard Stadium this afternoon, however, Coach Charlie O'Rourke's eleven will be shooting not for just a touchdown or an impressive showing, but for a major upset and their second straight win of the year...
...Redmen came from behind last Saturday to beat A.I.C., 32 to 27. They scored the decided touchdown with just two minutes left in the game when sophomore quarterback Tommy Whalon coolly threw a 30-yard pass to second-string end Vic Bissonnette. Bissonnette caught the ball on the A.I.C. 12-yard line and scored easily from there...
Today Whalen, who last week completed eight out of sixteen passes for a total of 122 yards, will be only one of three UMass passers. Behind him on the bench will be junior Howie Burns and sophomore John Noble, who will both get a chance to direct the Redmen's straight-and split-T formations...
Leading this platoon of second-stringers will be sophomore halfback Dick Wright, a 180-pounder whom Coach Lloyd Jordan has described as one of the men he'll have to watch out for. Others in the Redmen's second backfield will be quarterback Howie Burns, right half Don Johnson and fullback Phil Surgen. Surgen, a 185-pound junior who propped at Exeter, carried the ball six times last week for a rushing average of 9.3 yards...