Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scrappy, cool 1939 Yale squad caught a Crimson team composed mostly of overconfident sophomores and set it on end to the tune of 20-7. Captain Torbie MacDonald, one of the finest running backs seen in the Stadium in a decade, played a fine game; but the rest of the squad which went on to form the core of Harlow's great 1940 and 1941 outfits--couldn't stand up under the determination of the Elis...
...this was a pale fight compared to the 1937 game in the Stadium, Harvard, with Vernon Struck, Frank Foley, and Macdonald operating in the backfield, had exploded just once--against Princeton--and seemed doomed to lose to a Yale team which had big fast linemen and a backfield led by All-American Clint Frank...
...starting Dunster lineup: le, Smith; lt, Wesen; lg, O'Shea; c, Kelley; rg, Smith; rt, Bruce; re, Graham; qb, Viola; lh, Pearlstein; rh, MacDonald; fb, Heller or Schultz...
...Torbie Macdonald, whose running and passing had made him the 1938 Varsity standout, was only able to perform in three games of the '39 season because of a badly sprained right ankle. Novacaine injections which failed to carry Macdonald through the Penn game, aggravated his foot...
Besides the Crimson's three most recent captains, the brothers Ken and Cleo O'Donnell and Vince Moravoc, three other captain the other three victims were Don Forte, Joe Gardolla, and Torbie Macdonald. The last three all were Crimson colors before 1943, the year Harvard placed formal football in mothballs for the duration of the war. Only Franny Lee in 1941 escaped jinx...