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After Dartmouth's second touch-down, everyone realized that only a series of football miracles could save Harvard. In place of a miracle, a deluge of Biblical proportions arrived, crowning out all memories of last year's Army mud festival. A solid sheet of water covered the midfield area and rapidly gained sufficient depth to actually float the ball in places. Every play looked more like an outboard motor race than a football game, and when the backs were tackled they stirred up impressive "bow waves" as they skidded to a stop. And simultaneous with the appearance of white-caps...
...Crimson's passing defense was woefully weak, with Hollingworth and MacLeod alternating at opposite ends of sucessful spirals into Harvard's secondary. And although the home team flashed an offensive drive in the first period, it petered out shortly after the midfield marker had been passed...
Right inside Hanson of the Gymnasts scored first when he shot past Put Williams on a cross from his halfback. A moment later Dick Lewis seized the ball at midfield, fought his way up towards the invaders' goal, and passed to Newlin Hastings, who took his time, aimed, and fired a perfect shot into the draperies...
Early in the second quarter of the game between St. Mary's and Fordham at New York City's Polo Grounds last week, a St. Mary's back sent a terrific punt from midfield deep into the left-hand corner of Fordham's territory. Fordham's Maniaci, standing just inside the goal line, was watching which way the ball would bounce. To his surprise it bounded from the turf to his hip, his helmet, then rolled into the end zone. While he was deciding what to do next, St. Mary's Meister fell...
Edmands, who prepared at Groton, first played at the midfield position, but shifted to the attack; while Warwick, from South Kent, who also began his career in the midfield, changed to the defense position...