Word: seasonal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jayvees, in addition to a four-game schedule of their own, run opposition plays and scrimmage with the varsity. Their competitive season opens here on Oct. 15 against Army, followed by Dartmouth, Brown, and Yale. First string end Dick Hyde and tackle Will Davis are two examples of men who rose from the jayvees to the varsity last year...
Munro's task is nothing short of tremendous. Last fall, in his first season here, he fashioned a team which lost only to Springfield (his alma mater and defending national champion) and Navy, Harvard's only Ivy League loss. The 1948 team finished second to Cornell in the Ivy League and runner-up to Connecticut in the New England circuit...
However, Munro now must replace eight of last year's starting eleven. This includes the entire left side of the forward line and, most important of all, Captain Phil Potter (inside left) and Hans Estin (center forward). Of Harvard's 31 goals last season, these two men accounted for ten apiece...
...while the coach was hoping to use Siamese Piya Chakkaphak, last year's star freshman, at center forward, but Chakkaphak has been declared ineligible. By the time Chakkaphak can return to safe academic water the season will be almost over. Another man Munro will miss is Mal Greenidge, last year's freshman captain, who has dropped out of College...
Munro will thus be able to use the same defense that performed so capably last season. It is headed by Captain Whoop Batchelder, an outstanding goalie last year who never got the recognition he deserved, according to Munro, because he wasn't so flashy as some of the other goal-tenders around. "He just stopped the ball," says Bruce, "which is exactly what he's supposed...