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Chances this fall for a Crimson win are very good, with the 1942 outfit studded with outstanding players in every department. The line, averaging 195 pounds, is nevertheless fast, while Coach Stahley has several fine ball-carriers and blockers in the backfield, including Fred Spreyer, Harry Tine, Henry Vander Eb, and George Heiden...
Coach Earl Blaik brings the strongest offensive team which Coach Dick Harlow has ever faced in his four-year tenure here. The enemy starting backfield is one of the dog-gonedest scoringest concoctions ever put together, with Captain Bob MacLeod, who has hit pay territory 19 times in 19 straight frays, leading the procession. After him comes Bill "Mudder" Hutchinson and fullback Colby Howe, both fleet-footed pigskin toters who can fill the bill at either end of aerials. There is also sophomore Sanford Courter, starting quarterback, who has given promise of being another in a decade of great Dartmouth...
...selecting the first lineup it has been hard to make choices between men in many positions, but the probable lineup consists of Devine and Keats at the ends, Wood and Armstrong at the tackles, Lacey and Soule at the guard positions, and Fuller at the pivot post. In the backfield, it is probable that Rowe will start at tail, Hurley at wing, Brown at bucking back, and Sargent at blocking...
...understand that the statement attributed to Coach Blaik, that Bill Hutchinson might need assistance in the form of crutches to get to the field, is false. We are very glad, for we are very fond of last year's "mudder" Hutch and his backfield buddies, Captain MacLeod and Colby Howe. Hutchinson has scored 14 touchdowns and seven extra points in 13 games, not to mention one field goal; MacLeod has the nice round total of 19 t-downs in 19 clashes; while Howe has paid off ten times in his two years...
...backfield, only one man has apparently clinched a starting berth. Ted Lyman, by his play last week again Worcester, is sure to face Andover at the blocking back. Henry Vander and Harry Tine are fighting for the bucking position, while Fred Spreyer, Fran Lee, George Dreher, and George Heiden are alternating at the other two backfield posts...