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...Florida football forces which come to the Stadium on Saturday are an experienced and well-trained group of gridiron performers. Of the twenty-eight men making the trip to Cambridge, twenty are lettermen who earned their suprs playing on the 1928 eleven, the strongest ever produced at the Gainesville institution. They rolled up a total of 336 points in their nine game schedule, more than any other college team in the country. Their nearest competitor was the touted New York University team which could compile only...
While an aroused, Yale building was putting Cagle's cohorts to flight in New Haven, a strong Dartmouth eleven buried the Harvard football team under the greatest total of points in the history of Crimson and Green gridiron rivalry...
Writing of Owen in his roll call of Gridiron Greatness -- 1919-1929 -- Mr. Trevor asserts: "George Owen of Harvard confessed that he disliked football, but his opponents never would have suspected this aversion. Owen's particular mission in life was picking on Yale. He had only to walk on the field to beat the Elis. They were 'hexed...
...Billy Bull called Owen 'the greatest of all Harvard backs, Mahan included.' George had no equal when it came to grim resolution, the will to win. Owen was the gridiron's pinch hitter, almost invariably rising to occasions...
...Captain Barrett, one of the finest tackles in Eastern gridiron circles, the most alert man on the field and a steadying influence to a shaky line...