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Harvard's lineup found Thomas as fullback, Bud Rowell and Frank Holcomb at wing, Johnny Loos and Captain Ausnit at the three-quarter position, Jon Pritchard playing his final game at stand-off half. Commander Keith Kear of the New Zealand Royal Navy and the Law School as scrum half, and Bob Kennedy, Al Weisberg, Fred Garfield, Frank Jessop, Don Cummings, Don Hodge, Rog Willson, and Robin Worthington in the forward positions...
Ausnit, Johnny Loos, Golden, and Holcombe, with Lieutenant-Commander Kear of the R. N. Z. Navy and the Harvard Law School at scrum-half, make up the remainder of the backfield. Among the forwards, the position will be the same as last week, with Kennedy, Garfield, and Gross in the front line, Jessop and Hodge as locks, Weisberg as center, and Wilson and Worthington in the left and-right outside-forward position respectively...
...last year's soccer captain and broad jumper, Frank Swirles, who played football at the University of Southern California, and Mountain will be the starting backs. Others who will start are Bill Whiting, Dick Dowry, George Waters, Irv Gerson, Bill Nelson, Bill Pugh and Charlie Sharpe, forwards; Jim Warren, scrum half, and Barney Ferguson, stand...
...Newest British sport, much indulged in by girls attached to the various fighting services, is Scramball, the maidenly counterpart of rugby, from which the scrum (equivalent of U.S. football line play) and tackling are eliminated. When a player with the ball is touched, she must part with it instantly. Stalwart damsels play in service sweaters and short sports skirts...
...after slipping in through the huge ring of defenses that guard the Golden Gate, Saburo Kurusu made his first U.S. statement, hopefully. Said he: "The people of Japan and the United States should take peace for granted. . . . I fully realize the difficulty of my task, but, making a tight scrum, I wish I could break through the line and make a touchdown."(A fellow Japanese hastily explained that the word scrum was borrowed from British rugby.) "There are many people,"added Kurusu earnestly, "who want to bring our two countries into war for their own advantage...