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...coach; they have also forced the quarterback to mix psychology and prophecy. Play-caller Chip Gannon, today, may survey the Yale lineup and bend down to call the sure-fire play for his matches. But as the Crimson rushes out of the huddle they may find the Bulldogs just ain't where they're supposed to be. Actually any Yale shifts are only the Ornithologist's birds coming home to roost--Harlow is perhaps the greatest defensive innovator in American football. His so-called "looping" defense, where his line shifted toward be sideline and his backs in the other direction...
...Will Harbut, his Negro groom, put it: "This hoss owes nobody nuthin', an' ain't got no alibis to make . . . he race ten times as a two-yeah-old an' out of those ten races he win ten. How's 'at? Upset beat him? I didn't see it, mister, so I still...
...Ain is as typical a department of rural France as you could hope to find. Tucked away between Lyon and the Swiss frontier, it borrows from the north and west the lush red earth of Burgundy and the Saone valley; from the east some of the grandeur and sharp winds of the Alps; from the south some of the smiling sunniness of Provence...
...suin' for breach of promise. . . . Well, the way I read it, we can't pay for the goods we get from the States unless we get more dollars, and we can't get 'em like we uster, from the English, on account of the English ain't got 'em no more. And if we don't get the goods from the States we can't keep our factories goin' to send goods to England, and if we don't send the goods to England...
...heavy-duty ballcarrier was another Negro, talented Kenny Washington, who made the All-America first team. He and Jackie had no particular love for each other, but both deny persistent campus rumors that they once had a knockdown, drag-out fight in a dark alley. "T'ain't so," says Jackie, "I'm not dumb enough to have a fight with Kenny...