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...Tasker, who graduated from Syracuse, a pupil of the Rockne school of football. Knute Rockne himself, who was formerly connected with the William and Mary faculty, reorganized football coaching there two years ago, and since that time the college has met with increasing success on the gridiron. W. T. Hodges, chairman of the William and Mary Athletic Committee, is now engaged in his second year of graduate study in the Department of Education at the University...
...Coady, who played defense last year, is the logical candidate for the berth left vacant by Captain Crosby of last year's team. He combines weight with speed and was the most consistent member of the 1927 sextet. Zarakov is even more elusive on the rink than on the gridiron, and he can hardly be kept out of the regular forward line...
There are no excuses to offer. Brown's victory was clear cut and decisive. That page in the record is closed. There remains but one more entry in this season's gridiron account book. A victory over Yale, according to the conventional University view, will make any season successful. Another defeat will imprint the autumn of 1924 indelibly as the most disastrous in Harvard football annals...
...same time a blackshirt was promoted to the University squad in the person of J. R. Fordyce '26, 190-pound tackle. Although he failed to receive his numerals, Fordyce was a member of his Freshman squad. Last year ineligibity kept him away from the gridiron all fall...
...committee. Mr. Haughton said, "Harvard and Princeton were pioneers in establishing intercollegiate football. They also should be leaders in its chivalry. Harvard against Princeton is a football classic. No event could be more wholesome for the sport than the resumption of relations by these two pioneers upon the gridiron." Within the hour William W. Roper and the late Captain Howard H. Henry, of Princeton, were engaged with Mr. Haughton on the details of a schedule and the Harvard-Princeton series again was a fixture.WOODROW WILSON, PRINCETON...