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...occasion Bob Playfair smashed the course record to finish twelfth, while a Freshman with a five and one half minute head start loped home first...
...Harvard, eligibility for any team is denied a student who "receives ... financial support . . . primarily because of his ability as an athlete." Consequently, when Harvard's Athletic Director William J. Bingham last spring got a letter informing him of a "Bob Haley Fund." his eyes popped. J. Robert Haley of Winthrop, Mass. was captain of the Harvard football team...
...explanation of the letter-that a friend of Football Captain Haley's father who owed Haley Sr. money had offered to pay the debt by helping Bob Haley through Harvard, then mistakenly sought to enlist other Harvard graduates in his generous enterprise -cleared Football Captain Haley of blame but made him no less subject to the rules. Last week, he regretfully resigned. Under a Groton graduate named Shaun Kelly, elected to replace him, his onetime teammates, smartly drilled by Dick Harlow, first non-graduate football coach in Harvard history, made short work of Springfield College...
Others on the absentee list have been Bill Watt and Bob Jones. Both of these are also out of today's game. All told that makes quite an impressive score. It also makes Harlow's job about as difficult as is humanly possible. In fact if Harlow can produce a team which can stick close to the Crusaders for 60 minutes today he will be generally credited with having achieved the impossible. The chances are that the Purple will win by three touchdowns...
...night a girl phoned him from Chicago, Would he like to get to Chicago in a hurry for a radio audition? He would. That was in 1931. Today, if you listen to Betty and Bob--Don Amechi is Bob. For three years he has been leading man in the First Nighter and Grand Hotel, NBC dramatic programs, coast to coast. In September he made his appearance in person on the Pacific Coast--in Hollywood. A movie scout had at last found him. when the cameras turn, they will record a flashing smile, a strong, versatile, voice, and lightning like acting...