Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their last game, the Freshman team showed marked improvement over previous outings, holding a favored Exeter squad to a scoreless tie. The Lamarmen emerged in fairly good shape from that engagement, although halfback Don Trimble may not be available. Harry Moffie, another of Lamar's first-string backs, who missed the game with the Exonians, may be ready for the Jayvees...
...face in the Crimson second team is that of Freshman Ken Smith, who has apparently supplanted Chet Pierce as second string right tackle. Smith, who has been tried previously at guard and fullback, held his own yesterday in the contact session...
...size of the squad was somewhat reduced because of minor injuries suffered last Saturday in the Dartmouth game by several members of the team and a recurrence of chronic absenteeism. Gus Seamans, first-string halfback, who did not go with the team to Dartmouth because of two injured knees, was at practice today and will be available for Saturday's game with M.I.T...
Coach "Poley" Guyda spent the practice trying to work up the offense of his still undefeated Yardlings. He switched his first-string fullbacks to the second team and held a lengthy scrimmage with the second team, surprisingly enough winning out over the first-stringers. Guyda is especially high over the play of his two fullbacks, Mike Scully and Bill Harrop, considering their work to be largely responsible for the team's success so far this season...
Back in the days when the rubber truncheon was standard equipment on a muddy gridiron, football was the sport of gentlemen-mastodons with handlebar mops hanging over their snarling lips. Slipping out of their four-button sack coats, doffing their celluloid collars, and carefully folding their string-ties, an aggregation would roar out of a gaslit locker-room to pull every play in the book, and some still in manuscript. Grabbing moustaches was worth a slight penalty, but the pile-on, the straight-arm, and an occasional sapping with a clenched fist were all "part of the game." For eleven...