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...rained steadily and sometimes heavily on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon, turning the field into a spongy mudflat and the visitors' stand into a puddle collector, but the varsity football team practiced outside until 5:30 p.m. before they moved into Briggs Cage. After the practice concluded, Coach Valpey said that the rain had not prevented him from doing all the work he had planned...
...medical front, Valpey was happy to report that there were no injuries incurred in practice yesterday. But as for the group already injured, the news was not so good. Captain Howie Houston still has a 50-50 chance to play Saturday, but Chief Bender, behemoth tackle, almost certainly will not participate in the Columbia game. Hal Moffie and Jim Kenary were counted definitely out last Monday...
...Valpey had little to say about Stanford. "They outhit us all afternoon. It wasn't that we didn't want to hit--they just got there first." Art had no excuses or explanations. "We just took a licking...
...team ran through signal drills yesterday at a fast clip, started work on the Lions' formations, and got in some shots at the dummies. Valpey was shifting men to cover in the holes made by the injuries--shifting that began during the game Saturday, when Houston, Kenary, Bender, and Moffie got their bumps...
Injuries here and a good team at Columbia don't make a happy picture for the next five days. But there seems to be no mental hangover at all from the transcontinental headache--and Art Valpey is still going on his policy of last year, as restated last night: "We played Stanford last Saturday. We play one this Saturday, and next Saturday, and every week after that--one at a time...