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...sharp, succinct sentences, the W & M coach, Carl Voyles, said, "I'm glad we're playing Harvard and I think Dick Harlow is a great coach. I don't, however, approve of the way Harvard used the double shift against Penn. If Harvard doesn't use the shift against us, we won't use it, either. But if Harvard does use it, we'll do the same as much as we possible...
Voyles' statement puts the decision squarely up to Harlow as to whether he will again employ the much-discussed shift this afternoon when the two oldest colleges in the country clash on the gridiron this afternoon in what should prove to be one of the most exciting games of the season...
...figures proved the need. To man the U.S. war effort (Army, Navy and war workers) WMC will have to shift about 18,000,000 men & women from one job to another, from home to factory, from school to farm. It will be the greatest occupational shift in U.S. history...
Post-game gossip about lack of variety at the crucial moments when the Crimson stood before Penn's goal-line can be discounted . . . The Varsity ran eight running plays, tossed four passes, and worked a double shift inside the Penn 20 . . . Ironically, the team stalled on the two and the three but scored from the 27-yard line . . . George Boston, the Freshman who caught Comeford's six-pointer, made his Varsity debut with his thumb in a cast . . . It will take the movies to reveal how he managed to hold the ball with two defenders on his back...
...Panama, an Indiana soldier explained, "Oh, I guess it's all right, but girls are mighty scarce-especially American girls." Trinidad's isolated doughboys resorted to such classified ads as "Wanted to Trade: one blonde, fully equipped with hot and cold running water, new automatic gear shift, overstuffed upholstery in a delicate pink, supercharged, and ready for action. Does not even need reconditioning. Will trade for Book on How to Have Fun in the Barracks, or Life Without Women. Request immediate transaction before losing mind." So many men carried on with the Negro population that British residents remarked...