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Four former Crimson gridiron luminaries will be on hand to address the rally and encourage the team. C. C. Buell '23, Captain and quarterback of the successful 1922 team; E. L. Casey '19, one of the greatest halfbacks the University has ever had, and present coach of the Freshman team; M. A. Cheek, Jr., '26, captain of last year's University eleven; and George Owen '23, for three years a backfield mainstay of Coach Fisher's teams, will be the veterans to speak...
Outside of the clash in the Stadium this afternoon, however, the interest of football followers turns mostly to western fields. Two great conference games are on today's gridiron card. Wisconsin will try to stop its traditional rival, the powerful Michigan team, while Illinois, conqueror of Pennsylvania journeys to Chicago to meet the strong Windy City eleven. All of these teams are dangerous contenders for the "Big Ten" title and today's results should carry the combatants several steps nearer a decision for the recognized Middle Western supremacy...
...their last game before the final test against the Yale Freshmen at New Haven next week, the Freshman gridiron warriors battled the University Seconds to a scoreless tie on the second team field yesterday. For 48 minutes the two evenly-matched teams struggled up and down the field, with neither able to pierce beyond the other's 30-yard line. Near the close of the second quarter, Coach Knox's men worked the pigskin to the Freshman 30-yard streak, and Winston tried a drop-kick that went low, was blocked by Stewart and recovered by Douglas. This...
With both Purdue and Indiana on the 1927 Crimson gridiron schedule, and Holy Cross retained, Harvard will be tackling one of the stiffest schedules that any Cambridge eleven has faced in a number of years...
...only has this commissary plan proved satisfactory, efficient, and comfortable, but it has welded the college more closely together, probably being responsible for the spirit that has made the "Big Red" dreaded on the gridiron during the last six years. A Cornell undergraduate allows himself 30 to 25 minutes for each meal, ample time for both conversation and digestion. A Harvard cafeteria habitue, according to Roth, absorbs his nutriment in less than 15 minutes...