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...Crimson eleven would meet the University of Indiana next fall in the fifth game of the season. Since this is the week before the Princeton contest, Harvard will be meeting one of the strongest of the "Big Ten" Conference teams just before the opening of the "Big Three" gridiron series. For a number of years it has been the policy of the Harvard authorities to play a comparatively easy game before the contest with the Tigers, and the decision to play an intersectional contest with Indiana comes therefore as a distinct surprise...
McKinlock Hall won the second game of the annual interdormitory football series at Soldiers' Field yesterday when its gridiron stars defeated Standish by a score of 7 to 0. In the first game, played last Monday, Gore Hall downed Smith Hall...
...first half was all Harvard. Showing a determination and a spirited ground gaining ability seldom equalled in recent University gridiron history, the renovated eleven Coach Horween sent on the field completely outplayed its opponents and emerged at half time with a 14 point lead. Powerful line bucks by Miller alternated with shifty running by Putnam and French accounted for most of the advances. On the defense the University linemen led by a fast, fighting pivot in the person of Gamache were equally effective. Holy Cross succeeded in penetrating this alert, smashing defense for few gains and were never...
...odds against it. The Crimson's defeat at the hands of Geneva last Saturday and several injuries sustained during the week have combined to turn the opinion of experts in favor of the Purple in today's clash but the history of University teams which have triumphed after entered gridiron, contests as the underdog is too well known to allow even the most rabid Purple supporter to be too sanguine on the result of today's game...
...biggest surprise that Coach Horween has sprung during the last few-weeks. Stafford was considered virtually assured the quarterback position for this season, his play last year in Brown and Yale games being one of the high spots in the remarkable Crimson rejuvenation of the hectic 1926 gridiron season...