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Princeton, N. J., November 5, 1924.-Preparations for the Harvard gridiron contest are coming to a head on the campus here, accompanied by a feeling that we have at least a toss-up chance to win Saturday. Practice lasted one hour and a half this afternoon, and consisted mostly of a fast signal drill for both the first and second elevens...
...most distinguished coaches of athletes. Dressing for an afternoon's work- coaching the Columbia University football team, in Manhattan, he was stricken suddenly with acute indigestion which proved fatal almost before it seemed dangerous. "P. D." Haughton, Haughton of Harvard, Haughton of football, with genius for building gridiron machinery, had just capped many notable accomplishments with the re-creation of Columbia's once-potent elevens. Twenty years ago he built up Cornell. From 1908 to 1916 he rendered Harvard nearly unbeatable. Last week his Columbia team, which he had abuilding for two seasons, smashed Williams, the conqueror...
Moving pictures of several of last year's big football games will be shown at the Union tomorrow evening as part of the special program to be given on Election night. The picture "Gridiron Glory" will feature scenes and plays from the Columbia-Dartmouth game last year at the Polo Grounds and the Lafayette-Georgia Tech game. A variety of training and conditional stunts such as tackling with dummy, using the charging machines and running crouched under cords to make a line charge low, will also be shown...
...squad contains men who have starred for various schools before besides two brothers of Yale Team A regulars, Kline and Stur- han, a substitute tackle. According to the assistant coach who travelled to Boston with the team last night in the absence of Mallory, whose duties on the Yale gridiron are keeping him in New Haven for the weekend, Milford has two backfields of almost equal ability available for today's battle...
...Army is probably not so intense as that between the Big Three, the annual battle has become one of the greatest spectacles in intercollegiate football. The military manoeuvres performed by some 1200 cadets in the Bowl, prior to the game, attract thousands that ordinarily take little interest in the gridiron classics...