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That was the year of Captain Joe Gardella, Franny Lee, and Charley Spreyer, when the blossoming line which featured Chub Peabody, Loren MacKinney, Dick Pfister, Tom Gardiner, and Vern Miller was coming into its own. Remnants of the class of 1945--and there are many--will be eager to relate the 14 to 0 pasting handed the Bulldogs in 1941, when Peabody, later to be named on everybody's All-America list, played the entire game with charley-horses in both legs, and still was the bulwark of the Crimson forward wall...
...Frederick Charles Spreyer now. The former Crimson football great, has been commissioned an officer in Uncle Sam's army, and will be retained at Fort Sill to train the new applicants for officerships, along with 16 other men given a Lieutenant's bar at the same time...
Private Charles F. Spreyer, Harvard's tailback and signal caller in 1939 and 1940, who was drafted last summer prior to his Senior year, has been selected to attend the special officer candidate training school at Fort Bragg, North Carolina...
Excellent ability and aptitude for military science and tactics won him a place on the list of those chosen to go to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for further artillery officer training. Spreyer, a dangerous climax runner, had been expected to be the mainstay of the Crimson backfield this fall...
wingback to tailback this year, and George Helden are the only men returning who saw heavy action for the Crimson in last year's tie game. Charley Spreyer, hard-running fullback, who had a great day last November against the Red and Blue, is now in the army, and Dick Harlow has been vainly combing the ranks of the Jayvees and new Sophomores trying to uncover another back who can possibly approach Spreyer's brilliance...