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Rumors were widespread along the Gold Coast and throughout the Yard that the College would have to be recessed because of increasing cases of influenza, but the big news of the opening year was that Coach Arnold Horween '29 would return to lead the football team toward another highly successful year. The announcement gave further encouragement that 1929 would prove a fitting climax to the Roaring Twenties...
...football season proved its worth as a training ground for '28. Despite the gridiron loss to Yale, French had shown himself a fast and deceptive halfback under Coach Horween's double wings attack, and had been named captain for the coming season. John Tudor climaxed a brilliant season at left wing by being elected captain of the 1928-29 hockey team. Forrester Clark was elected leader of the crew. In the winter and spring of '28 J. L. Reid was already showing the outstanding long distance form that was to bring him the '29 track captaincy. R. B. Whitbeck...
...weeks later Bingham broke the news of the appointment of Arnold Horween '21 as head football coach for the fall...
...later, Cambridge alternated between mourning the death of President-Emeritus Eliot during the summer and cheering over Gene Tunney's victory over former heavy weight Jack Dempsey. Al Jolson in "Big Bay" was ht star of the hour and thousands of alumni were looking over the shoulder of Arnold Horween as he schooled his first football team...
Though a majority of the Class may have felt themselves the unhappy victims of the traditional sophomore slump, Messrs. French, Putnam, and Robinson distinguished themselves under Horween's guidance. French made a number to touchdowns which were well received, and Putnam's signal calling was a key to the team's early season wins over Tufts and Dartmouth...