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Averaging 200 pounds in the forward lines, and 180 pounds in the backfield, the Cambridge team presents a formidable front to the comparatively light Crimson forward wall. However, Harvard's backfield is strong, bolstered by Pepper Constable, former Captain of the Princeton Varsity...
...Other backfield aspirants were: Ralph Hornblower '41, Clifton Helman '41, Bill Tully '41, Al Jaretzki '41, George Smith '41, Bill Stedman '41, Charles Burnett '41, Herbert Wee '41, D. C. Hamilton '41, Joe Gardella '41, Bob Toomey '40, Bill Tyng '41, Louis Harder '41, Al Stohn '41, Joe Scherer '41, G. W. Bailey '40, Ben Smith '39, Pete Thompson '40, Pete Elser '41, Tom Gaffney '41, Bob James '41, and George Harder...
With outdoor practices the backs have been able to develop the speed and hard, running with which they hope to surprise the Cantab ball-carriers. Lining up in the scrum-half position is scrappy Al Osgood who was on the Princeton team of last spring. Playing in the backfield for the first time, Osgood is working out well and is showing plenty of fight, together with a fast "dive pass" to his inside backs. Behind him at stand-off, Harry Goff from Stanford has been turning in some fast, tricky running which has given him the edge so far over...
...coaches will assist Harlow in the spring drills, including Wes Fesler, end coach, Lyal Clark, line coach, John Wood, backfield coach, Vernon Struck, assistant backfield coach, Henry Lamar, Junior Varsity coach, and Skip Stahley, Freshman coach. For the first time in a long while an undergraduate, Struck, will be acting in an official coaching capacity before graduation...
...years and a member of his House Committee for three. He is at present chairman of the Adams Committee. He was Biography Chairman of the Album Committee and has won the Francis H. Burr and Henry B. Rogers scholarships. On Tuesday it was announced that he would be assistant backfield coach of the 1939 Varsity football team...