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...game, first real test of the University's "big-time" athletic program, will show a different Scarlet and White club from the one which played in the informal tilt of two years ago. The battle-fatigued vets have been replaced by 49 well-conditioned athletes who have been waiting for this game. They are ready for it and have vowed that there will be no repetition of the 1945 scandal...
Odds on the Crimson range from 10 points to three touchdowns, but the actual Terrier squad, upon which these odds are based, comprises only half of the Varsity's worries. The other half is the coaching finesse of wily Buff Donelli, in his first year as Scarlet and White mentor...
...Terrier regular, the confines of the Soldiers Field Stadium will be nothing unusual. George Boston, who played second string halfback for the Crimson last year but shifted his allegiance to Boston University to get the studies he wanted, is starting at right end for the Scarlet and White. "By far the best end I've got," Donelli tabbed Boston earlier this week...
Usually stoic John Harvard blushed scarlet over a "B.U."-lettered waistcoat as seven car-loads of Terrier students touched off kerosene poured in the symbol "BU" and stretching from the 50 yard line southward to the 35. Firemen and Yard police armed with guns arrived to find seared, black turf facing their hoses...
...Eliot House, the oak-pannelled front door of John H. Finley, master of the House, was bedecked with another pair of the scarlet letters...