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...House, high scorer for the season, will again play in his usual position of 3/4, with Gwyn Thomas of Adams House relieving Loos on part of the conversion kicking. Holcombe of the V-12, who played in his first game last Saturday as forward, has been placed in the backfield as left-wing, with Don Cummings also of the V-12, playing on his right...
Despite the loss for the rest of the season of Dunney Smith from Adams House, whose brilliant backfield playing along with his conversion kicking has been responsible for much of the scoring is the three previous games, the two other 3/4 position backs, Steve Ausnit and John Loos, both from Dunster, were able to crash over the New Zealand goal line on five different occasions. Loos was the star for the afternoon with three trys and a conversion kick to his credit for a total of 11 points...
Coach Stahl first came to Harvard in the fall of 1938, after having coached baseball and basketball at Ohio State University for eight years before that. In addition to being head-coach of the baseball team here, he also coached last year's Varsity basketball team, and was backfield coach of the football team...
Practice every afternoon this week has strengthened the Crimson team considerably, and closer coordination among the individual players has been achieved, according to Captain Steve Ausnit '45. Coach Syd Cabot has re-arranged the backfield, while Lieutenant Commander Kear of the Royal New Zealand Navy, whose team swamped the Crimson by 12 to 5 last week, has been coaching the Harvard forwards...
Half the game was played by Canadian rules, half by American. This meant that during the first half there were twelve men on a side ; interference was forbidden more than three yards ahead of the line of scrimmage; the backfield could be in motion before the ball was snapped...