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Nobody contends that Harvard's 1939 eleven will go down in history as a world beater. Nobody who saw Saturday's game would predict a Rose Rowl bid for the Crimson forces. In fact nearly everybody feels we have, at beat. a "just fair" team. .... And bud to relate, those nobodies and everybodies are right...
Today's practice consisted of signal drill and dummy scrimmage in the Rowl. The team lined up as follows: Hullman, l.e.; Miller, l.f.; Cruikshank, l.g.; Love Joy, c.; Cross, r.g.; Diller, r.t; Deavet r.e.; Neidlinger, q.b.; Neale and Wight, l.h.b.; Jordan, r.h.b.; Mallory, f.b. Beckett and O'Hearn will be ready for Saturday's game...
What is here known as a "squirt" is called at other places a "rowl" or "rush." The analogy between the sudden ejection of water from a pipe and the quick and forcible expulsion of words from the mouth probably gave rise to this word, which so aptly expresses what it is intended to by sound merely. At some colleges a person of a religious turn of mind is variously denominated "evangelical," "long-ear," and "donkey." I confess myself as ignorant of the similarity which exists between these terms and that which they define as any from the ranks...
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