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...like all coaches, Jack Carr has his worries. The biggest one is whether to put Captain Dave Ives at halfback or fullback. If he plays the former position the rear guard lacks the necessary defensive strength. The same goes for the halfbacks when Ives is at the fullback post. The last arrangement seemed the better until the serious Princeton walkaway last week, and now it is very possible that he will be moved back to his original halfback duties for the Springfield match. It all boils down to this: with one more strong fullback, Coach Carr would be sitting...
...would have to rely a great deal on the crack '43 team of last year. Well, he must be pretty well satisfied for they all have come up to expectations, especially Herskovits, Sawhill and Jack Calhoun. If Al Merck had returned to college there might have been no fullback problem. And according to Jimmy MacDonald, the Freshman coach, this year's crop of Yardlings are doing very well by themselves...
...Jayvees will be without the services of fullback Bank Vander Eb, kicking expert, who is journeying to Philadelphia with the Varsity. George Duane, Elisha Atkins, Bob Haydock, and Rod Townsend, Varsity squad men who are not making the trip will play in this afternoon's contest...
Dick Harlow has announced the his starting lineup will be the same as the one which played most of the Princeton game, with the exception of Joe Gardella's fullback post. Bill Brown and Mort Waldstein are rated even as understudies for the Harvard leader, and weather conditions will determine who gets the starting call tomorrow. Gardella has been ruled out of any action against the Quakers, according to latest medical reports...
Sophomore Mort Waldstein continued to lead in the tussle for Gardella's starting fullback post as Mississippi's Bill Brown was relegated to the "B" squad for the second day in succession...