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Besides Mudd and Hedreen, Munro will start Dick McIntosh and Tadgh Sweeney at wing, Larry Ekpebu at center forward, and Marsh McCall, Bill Rapp, and Charlie Steele at the halfback positions. Captain Lanny Keyes and Tim Morgan will be at fullback, and Tom Bagnoli will open in the nets...
...third quarter was marked by wide-open play and several near misses. Early in the period fullback Lanny Keyes, again playing a fine game on defense, booted away a shot aimed straight at the goal...
...varsity's defense was, as usual, impenetrable. Lanny Keyes played a nearly perfect game at left fullback, and halfback Charlie Steele bottled up the Columbia attack on the right. At the one point when a sensational stop was needed, goalie Tom Bagnoli came through. In the fourth quarter, Lion center forward Haakan Rutchinsky had a clear shot from close in, but Bagnoli rose to the occasion with a spectacular diving save...
...Left fullback Ekkehard Boellert was the big man in the Columbia defense. Physically prepossessing at 6 ft., 6 in. and 250 Ibs., the slow-moving Boellert seemed always to be in the right place, thanks to a kind of blind instinct. And his kicks regularly covered half the length of the field...
Columbia's goalie, Stew Witt, put in a fine game, despite his difficulties with the hulking Boellert. It seemed that the big fullback was blocking the goalie's view of the game--often a fatal mistake. Throughout the game, conversations like the following went on between...