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After Princeton had jumped off to a four point lead, the Harvard attack, paced by Burditt and Dillon, matched the Nassaumen point for point till the buzzer sounded for the half with the scoreboard showing Harvard 17, Visitors...
...talks are in keeping with the Harlow personality, however. Although he does prefer scoreboard triumphs to the moral victories his boys were piling up earlier this season, the spirit of his teams does mean almost as much to him as the final score. Harlow likes to win and he likes to fight, and he likes his football players to be the same. Judging from the newspaper comments of the '42 eleven, he has succeeded in this respect. And also judging from newspaper men, he is a tremendous coach as well as fine fellow. To quote the assistant again...
...prolific begetter of brain children. Six years ago, to stimulate his trade, he organized the country's sandlotters into the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress. To ballyhoo the sand-lot business, he introduced many innovations: automatic home-plate duster (compressed air whooshed through an underground tube), neon-lighted Scoreboard, jack-in-the-box microphone for umpire's announcements, electric eye to detect balls...
...sound of exploding anti-aircraft shells is music to soldiers' eafs. They say they'd rather hear it than Tommy Dorsey's band. USAFFE headquarters issues a daily news bulletin which features 'Today's Scoreboard,' telling the number of planes shot down to date...
Daniel Mulvey of the New Haven Register: "There's no such thing as moral victory in football, but if ever a team deserved credit in defeat it was Yale. The final score was wide enough by scoreboard measurement but far from the total the hard-driving Cantabs hoped to roll...