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While in New York the Cambridge team will stay at Columbia University and will use their athletic fields for their practice work-outs. Among the members of the team are J.D. Low, their captain and scrum-half; R. B. Bruce Lockhart, nephew of the author of "British Agent," and P. J. Bateman Champain, renowned as one of the heaviest rugby players in England...
With outdoor practices the backs have been able to develop the speed and hard, running with which they hope to surprise the Cantab ball-carriers. Lining up in the scrum-half position is scrappy Al Osgood who was on the Princeton team of last spring. Playing in the backfield for the first time, Osgood is working out well and is showing plenty of fight, together with a fast "dive pass" to his inside backs. Behind him at stand-off, Harry Goff from Stanford has been turning in some fast, tricky running which has given him the edge so far over...
Among the forwards several new combinations have been used. Pete Knapp, J.V. football captain and member of the Rugby team last year, is back in his old position in the front row of the scrum; and Tom Gephart, a regular last spring, is playing wing forward...
...second row of the scrum, known as the "muscle-men of rugby," Butch Fisher, the "light from Law School," is filling one of the berths at lock, a position he held on the Varsity team two years ago. Fisher, a 200-pounder, gives plenty of push, and it would take a good man to get through or around him. Cabot Briggs, who has played at Oxford, is the other lock at present, with Bill Coleman, a center on the Varsity squad last fall, and 190-pound Dick Nason offering plenty of competition...
...newcomer to the rapidly increasing squad of over forty-five players is Gordon Bennett, last year's Dartmouth football captain. He has been working out in the third row of the scrum and looks like a good candidate for that position. However, Bob Downes, Varsity guard, is right in there, and there is always the possibility that Cummings and Gephart may be shifted. Neither Bennett or Downes have played rugby before this year, but they are expected to learn fast in the two weeks that remain...