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When the University players reported inside the practice enclosure yesterday W. B. Trafford '32 188-pound tackle, was with the squad. He was promoted from the seconds as two members of the first string group, a guard and tackle, were sent down to Coach Knox's squad...
With a fund of good material on hand, the Harvard mentor plans two scrimmages, possibly three, this week in an attempt to cut his present squad of 48 down to more wieldy proportions. This afternoon will find the first string players pitted against Coach Knox's seconds and the two squads will meet again on Wednesday afternoon. There is a possibility of a third scrimmage on Thursday. So far the Crimson squad has engaged in six practice tussles with the scrubs and run through a wide variety of plays...
Checking their line thrusts with well-executed lateral and forward passes, the University players downed the Knox-coached scrubs by a 27 to 0 score. Although the first string players started slowly and showed ragged form, they soon got under way. The initial score followed a fifty yard parade down the field. A lateral from Putnam to Mays netted 20 yards. Charles Devens crashed through a weak spot in the left side of the scrub line for 15 more: yards and Putnam advanced the pig skin five. With beautiful interference mowing down potential tacklers. Mays dashed 15 yards...
...fractured his skull in an automobile accident during the summer. At Annapolis was Johnny Gannon who helped the Navy tie Michigan last year. Discarding the huddle system, Columbia rehearsed two crack, barking quarterbacks, Liflander and Joyce. Princeton's fleet Eddie Wittmer turned up, sole survivor of a first-string backfield otherwise dispersed by graduation. At Stanford, giant Center Walter Heinecke reported, despite poor health which may keep him on the bench. Charlie ("Foots") Clements, Alabama tackle, seemed to be wearing bigger shoes than ever. Husky after a summer job as highway policeman, Fullback Harold Rebholz returned to Wisconsin. Harvard...
...young daughters are "in society," which he shuns. He plays no golf, no cards, no craps. He sings "darkey songs" accompanying himself on the piano. In South Carolina he is a potent fisherman, not with rod and reel but with a bamboo pole and a piece of old string with which, from the swamp-bordered streams of his State, he pulls out many a "red breast." Only an old Negro, son of his father's slave, accompanies him, knows his bait. He is the Senate's most active tobacco chewer. A spittoon, into which he sends two streams...