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...ball club. Defensively there was little to be desired--except in one fatal department. Of course Hobin is a super passer, but just the same, he was given altogether too much time to get rid of the ball. The Crimson ends were not getting into the Holy Cross backfield fast enough to bother Hobin...
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There was a second way in which the Framingham star caused trouble, and this time it was the Harvard backfield that was slow. Twice Hobin got off little quick kicks that went sipping over the Crimson backs before they realized what was happening. Then, too, on ordinary punts going in the reverse direction the Holy Cross receiver was never once nailed on the spot. A lot of distance was lost on the exchange of kicks on Saturday...
Outstanding in the display of this well-balanced forward wall was the work of David Glueck, former Exeter player, who turned in a fine defensive game at right guard, stopping several schoolboy plays cold with decisive tackles. Although the backfield contains no stars of the first order, O'Toole, Oaks, and Jerome form the nucleus of what promises to be a better than average secondary...
...fullback posts were the one hole Jack Carr found vacated at Commencement. Dick Gummere and captain Bill Wemple, who graduated last June, were both named "outstanding players for the season of 1933." So far this year Carr has filled the gap with Ferd Stent, who substituted in the backfield last year, and Horace Robinson and found them satisfactory. Bob Holcombe is serving as alternate...