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Football at Harvard came into its own on Saturday. Although it seems entirely superfluous to point this out after everyone who has followed the football team knows that Harvard now need never again smile apologetically when the gridiron sport is mentioned, though everyone gets slightly sick at talk of a moral victory, nevertheless it would be carrying indifference several steps too far to overlook what did happen in the Baltimore Municipal Stadium...
...football team to Baltimore, but it is a special Harvard team. Despite all statements and predictions to the contrary by sportswriters tired of watching the Crimson go down to defeat after defeat, Harlow's eleven men are due for a major victory. For three years they have labored with gridiron fundamentals; by now these have certainly been absorbed. For three years they have been learning smart, deceptive football; by now enough experimentation has been expended on such teams as Princeton, Yale, and Springfield to produce the result of victory. Whether Harvard will win tomorrow is as important as the fact...
...fortnight. Where there was this kind of public smoke, issuing even from Administration leaders, there was no lack of private fire, its flames still hidden but its sparks feeding inwardly on a spirit of dissatisfaction and antagonism. Franklin Roosevelt may have sensed this the evening he attended the spring Gridiron Club dinner, given by Washington's newshawks. First he was caricatured as Don Quixote exclaiming to Sancho Panza Garner: "Seest thou not yon fortress of privilege, yon castle of finance?" ("Them's windmills. Boss." said Sancho.) Next he was Pharaoh, telling ''Little Joseph" Wallace...
According to the drawing made this morning, the heavyweight division promises to be the feature of the event. Among the heftier leather-throwers is a large contingent from the gridiron, including Captain James J. Gaffney '37, Charles W. Kessler '37, Joseph H. Nee '38, and Tudor Gardiner '40. Many of the Freshman team and nonletter men from the Varsity have entered the competition...
Tubbs was end and quarterback at William-Jewell College (Missouri), coached Missouri high schools to get money enough to complete a graduate course in chemistry at the University of Chicago. He soon found himself in winter-ridden Superior, Wis., tutoring Superior High to national gridiron prominence...