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...hundred and forty-one Freshmen donned football togs yesterday and reported to Coach E. E. Casey '19 in the opening practice of the first-year gridiron season at Soldiers Field yesterday...
Captain C. A. Pratt '28, who is back this year in his old position at right tackle, is a known quantity. Last fall he was, before the end of the season, one of the outstanding tackles in Eastern gridiron ranks, and reports so far this year indicate that his work shows anything but decline. With Captain Pratt, then, taking care of one tackle assignment in competent fashion, the University coaching staff is confronted with the problem of finding or developing a capable running mate for the Crimson leader. Clark at present gives the greatest promise of measuring up to this...
...This year he has risen to first string ranking, and according to reports which emanate from the secret Soldiers Field practice sessions gives promise of great further improvement. Clark is six feet, five inches tall, weighs 210 pounds this year, and has the power to place him among the gridiron's leading giants. On the effectiveness with which he can use this power depends to a certain extent the strength of Harvard's tackles in this fall's encounters...
...when he started as a Sophomore at left end on the Stadium turf. Strong's is the only name in the last of this year's ends which appeared regularly in last year's line ups. In addition to Strong and Coombs, however, Horween has several wingmen of wide gridiron experience. R. H. O'Connell '30 and John Prior '29, both outstanding figures in preparatory school football three years ago, the former at Exeter where he was captain and the latter at Andover, were prominent members of the Freshman eleven two years ago. O'Connell was not in college last...
Scrimmage and more scrimmage has been the treatment prescribed by Head Coach Arnold Horween '21 for his gridiron charges during the last two days. Despite the fact that they have been in uniform little more than a week the red jerseyed athletes have already encountered the Black Shirts in two long scrimmage sessions...