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Gold footballs will be presented to members of the team by the president of the club, for the first time since Harvard's victory over Yale in 1930 when the team was led by Benjamin H. Ticknor '31, and coached by Arnold Horween '21. In recognition of each victory over Yale, silver footballs are awarded to the Junior Varsity and Freshman teams, while gold footballs are given to the Varsity. Following the presentation, official H.A.A. moving pictures of the 1933 Yale game will be shown for the first time. Music for the occasion will be furnished by the University band...
...modern players, as a whole, are just as good as the old timers. I know that many a fine player of my days would not even make the varsity squad in this present age of forward passes, intricate offences, speed, and brains. I consider Bon Ticknor to be one of the greatest players I have ever seen. He could do everything: block, tackle, knock down passes...
...players in Saturday's game calls for some comment. Choate was the man of the hour and should be given a chance on Team A this week. Time and again he broke through interference and snagged the runner. Casey turned in one of the sweetest performances seen since Ben Ticknor guarded the pivot poet and was in on nearly every play. Hid diagnosis of the Holy Cross deception was uncanny...
Married. Benjamin Holt ("Ben") Ticknor, famed Harvard footballer (1931); and Barbara Farmer, daughter of Yale's Athletic Director Malcolm Farmer; in New Haven, Conn...
...center the leading candidates seem to be Francis Crane and Brad Simmons. Crane is the more experienced of the two, while Simmons is the same powerful, ranging type of center as Ben Ticknor and Roger Hallowell, Harvard's most successful centers of recent years...