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Play was even throughout the match until the final three minutes, when the Tigers crossed the goal line after a breakaway run by their scrum-half. Both teams took advantage of the gusty wind at their backs for long punts downfield, but hard tackling and an abundance of penalty kicks kept the score low. Crimson Captain Lionel Bryer, wings Bob Leet and Jack Linehan, and flyhalf Allen Hobson each played a good wet-field game, in their final match of the season...
Cleary set up the final two Crimson scores on smooth pass plays. He passed to Crehore on a breakaway, allowing him to go in along on the cage and score his second goal at 10:12. Four minutes later, Cleary got around the defense, drew Lawn to the right of the cage, and passed to defenseman Art Noyes, who was unguarded on the left, for the sixth goal...
Nevertheless, it was Harvard which got and took the scoring breaks. Pearson fumbled on the play following his breakaway run, and Crimson end Joe Ross recovered on the varsity's 24. Eight plays and 76 yards later, Bob Cowles crossed the goal line on a reverse-and-cut-inside-end. Ross made the first of his three extra points...
Joel Deckman, who, like Ahlberg, weighs only 158 pounds, compiled an almost equally impressive 8.6 yard average on five plays, including a 40-yard scoring breakaway in the first period...
...Hollywood, rehearsing for his show, Red Skelton plunged headlong into a "breakaway"* door. It didn't break, and Red was hospitalized with concussion and a mild case of shock. Skelton seems to be growing accident prone: last year he narrowly missed blowing off his head with a shotgun; last January he fell through a glass shower door, requiring 30 stitches in his arm; last April he sprained his back falling down a flight of stairs. This time, on only 30 minutes' notice, Nightclub Comic Johnny Carson (who is also M.C. of CBS's Earn Your Vacation) took...