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Strong opposition will be encountered by the Varsity soccer team when it meets the M.I.T. outfit this afternoon at 12.30 o'clock on the Business School backfield. The Engineer outfit, which usually appears on the Harvard schedule for a set-up game preceding the Yale contest, starts this year in excellent condition. The Bulldogs edged M.I.T. last Saturday...
Coach Casey must have been a bit concerned just the same over the running weakness, for several shifts in the backfield are on the schedule for the Wildcat--last week it was the Bobcats--tilt. The one thing that everyone will be watching today is the ability of the Crimson outfit to gain consistently through the line. It seemed to us that the lightness of Bates' backs held the Lewiston outfit to a small yardage more than the play of the Harvard linemen. The little fellows were stopped by sheer weight...
...backfield Yale's chief threat centers, of course, in Bob Lassiter. Speedy, as hard to tackle as any runner who ever came to New Haven, Lassiter can pass and kick as well, and he has already played a major part in two Eli campaigns. Stan Fuller, a transfer, is another dependable back, who became eligible this fall and promises to do most of Yale's punting. Andy Callan, understudy for Joe Crowley last fall, has taken over the fullback post and looks dependable. Del Marting, another veteran, is calling signals this year...
...Besides these four, the Blue is also blessed with a good crop of Sophomore backs. Tommy Curtin and Jerry Roscoe shape up unusually well, while Dick Cummins and Kim Whitehead, also 1936, combine with Mal Watson, Sid Towle, Earl Nikkel, and Danny Lynch to round out a fairly large backfield squad." TIME...
...Willard E. Ingalls '35, the Adams House fullback, scored both the touchdowns, one on an intercepted pass. William H. Hatch, Jr. '34, the quarterback, kicked the extra point after the last score. In the other game of the day, John T. G. Nichols, 3d, '34, and Gardner Taft '35, backfield men for Winthrop House, combined to down their opponents...