Word: team
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view of the general hodge-podge of personnel he drew this year, Little does not expect to show Lion followers a team in the old Columbia tradition this fall. He will "build" for a year or two and the following season he'll field another fine eleven...
Obviously, Little had to start from scratch this fall. He has three fairly experienced players, two backs and an end, who formed the so-called nucleus of the team; from there, Little and his nine assistants have had to experiment with sophomores and varsity holdovers with only a smattering of intercollegiate competition behind them...
What remains to be seem tomorrow is whether Little's sophomores gained enough experience from the game to make their presence felt. Harvard end coach Elmer Madar scouted the Light Blue last week and reported that Columbia is 20 percent better than the team which lost to the Crimson, 33 to 24, here last year...
Although the varsity eleven will be at Baker Field, the local area won't be entirely devoid of Crimson action tomorrow. Five miles away at Medford, Bruce Munro's soccer team will open its 1949 season against Tufts...
...Neither team at this stage appears the decided favorite. Although the Crimson last year shut out Tufts, 5 to 0, Coach Munro has lost most of his best linemen through graduation. The defense, headed by captain-goalie Whoop Batchelder, will be Harvard's strongpoint...