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John Harkness, last year's intercollegiate 175-pound wrestling champion, now at law school; Austin Scott, former president of the club, Phil Strong, treasurer of the Club; George Ditz, former captain of the Stanford University Rugby Club; Fred Smith, former Princeton rugger; Johnny Castle of Yale; and Paul Counihan are the other ranking forwards...
...SCOTLAND-R. H. Bruce Lock-hart-Putnam ($3). In this nostalgic, slow-paced account of his athletic boyhood, Author Lockhart (British Agent) gives first place to relatives and Rugger, with interspersed laments on the decline of bagpipes, kilts, Scotch whiskey, dialect and nationalism, winds up with a stirring defense of schoolmasters. Concluded with this volume, Author Lockhart's autobiographical series adds little to modern letters, but makes an interesting example of Scotch frugality in living one's life twice over...
...Fifty rugger aspirants turned up last night in Eliot House at the preliminary meeting of the Rugby Club. Thirty-five signed up for the spring trip to Bermuda. Practice starts next Monday in the Old Cage at Soldiers Field...
...meeting of the Eastern Rugby Union of America held in New York over the weekend a new constitution was adopted to help boost the game in America. At the same time measures were adopted for arranging future tours of English rugger teams in this country...
Yale and Harvard have been playing football, and on British soil. To be sure the game was not under the rules revised each year for the colleges of the United States. The game was English rugby, "rugger" for short, and it was the climax of football week in Bermuda. But the boys who were the crimson and the blue were students at Cambridge, Mass., and New Haven, Conn., off where the sun is warm for their Spring vacation...