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...chief pilot for the U.S.-Canadian Icefield Ranges Research Project, Phil Upton had for years stared down from his plane at the billions of tons of antediluvian ice frozen onto the east slope of Mount Steele in Canada's Yukon Territory. Perhaps 20,000 years old, it looked much the same as any other glacier-until six weeks ago, when Upton gazed down and did a double take. To his astonishment, Steele Glacier's normally mirror-smooth surface now was churned into cathedral-like spires 250 ft. tall. The huge chunk of ice was on the move...
Yale's first three goals, scored by Johnny Griswold, Joe Upton, and John Kerry, were all untouchable blasts which the fast linemen got off after beating Harvard's fullbacks...
Three minutes later the Eli line got another chance when a halfback fed the ball past the Crimson fullbacks into the left corner. Wing Joe Upton got to the ball first, out-dribbled fullback Alex Patton by turning the ball into the center, then lining it into the near corner of the goal...
Yale has scored only nine goals in its six Ivy encounters, but All-Ivy inside left Joe Upton and center forward John Griswold provide a dangerous scoring threat...
...Upton, Griswold, and the rest of the Yale line will be up against Harvard goalie Nat Bowditch, who is making the final start of his three-year varsity career. Bowditch, who showed the rust of his four-week layoff when he let in four Brown goals, should be ready to return to the form that won him second team All-Ivy honors last year...