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...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...
...Healey's fast ball has been inconsistent to date. He is leading the circuit pitchers in strike-outs with 13, but against the Tigers was definitely off and batted from the mound. Although John Mahoney held B. U. to a stand-off, the veteran slow-ball artist can not be counted on as a consistent winner in Ivy competition...
...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 John Profit from Bermuda...
...Harvard lineup will be: forwards, E. Whitney, A. Teichmeier, P. Knapp, A. Scott, H. Miller, A. Trench, T. Gephart and R. Williams; scrum half, S. Cockins; stand-off, H. Channing; inside three-quarters, G. Desmond and A. Simpson; wing three-quarters, J. Field and W. Watt, and fullback, W. Waters...
After a 24-hour stand-off during which he was presumably studying his large collection of responsible and irresponsible U. S. press attacks on the Fuhrer, Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath received the scholarly U. S. Ambassador...