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Adams may produce a secret weapon in the form of fullback Guck Mahoney, who has announced that be may play tomorrow in spite of hour exams this week and lack of practice. Mahoney, former netfolk, Virginia, Naval Base star, is reputed to have thrown a 70-yard pass in his first intra-service game and can run 100-yards in ten seconds...
...Dame's first-stringers ripped off three touchdowns in 8½ minutes, and Leahy went to work. He pulled out towering (6 ft. 4½ in.) Right End Leon Hart, perhaps the best all-round football player in the business, benched Tackle Jim Martin and gave All-America Fullback Emil ("Red") Sitko the rest of the afternoon off. By scraping the bottom of his substitute barrel and forbidding the use of the forward pass, Leahy held Notre Dame scoreless in the fourth period; But the score was already 40-0, and there it stood at game...
Princeton's team strength lay in its depth and power and not in passes and speed, although its attack contained a little of everything. Fullback plunges and wide end sweeps, the key plays in this pattern, were achieved with the best blocking seen in the Stadium all year...
Despite their inability to score, several Crimson players played the games. Inside right Dana Getchell barely missed three shots, while on the defense right fullback Charlie Ufford and center halfback Bon Florin were outstanding...
Captain Whoop Batchelder played a fine game at goal for Harvard, coming up with three or four saves of the 'impossible' variety. But just the same, Whoop wasn't overworked, for both the fullback and halfback lines were functioning well...