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...good showing against Holy Cross and a two-for-three Western trip had left the varsity favored over the Tigers, but after producing a three-point lead in the first ten minutes of play, Shepard's double pivot attack failed to jell. Princeton won going away. Close guarding by Tiger footballers George Sella and Dick Kazmaler helped hold down Rockwell and Ed Smith, who only made 12 points between them...
...thanked Tiger Scout "Wish" Egan, who discovered him playing for the University of Michigan: "The courage he has shown in fighting for me during my pitiful exhibitions will live with me as a shining example of friendship." He thanked the Detroit fans for their support, though he admitted that "my mistakes caused many of [you] to desert me." It was a nice, humble, broad-minded piece, but hardly evidence that Dick Wakefield had changed. The question seemed to be whether cagey Yankee Manager Casey Stengel could knock the humility...
Although the team led at half-time by a score of 6 to 4, it bowed before a Tiger offensive in the third chukker when Tucker and Ellis scored twice each...
...line, Yale is unspectacular. There are no apparent weak spots, but neither is there any one position where an Eli really shines. The ends were pretty well taken care of by Princeton's vicious blocking last week; the guards and tackles gauged up to stop Tiger plays but seemed weak when they had single shots at runners
Retribution. Tomoyuki Yamashita, "Tiger of Malaya" and conqueror of Singapore, climbed down from a Philippine mountaintop on Sept. 2, 1945 to surrender to the Americans. From Tokyo, Supreme Allied Commander MacArthur ordered his immediate trial as a war criminal. Some 60,000 Filipinos and Americans had suffered and died in Japanese atrocities during the eleven months of Yamashita's command in the Philippines. Their fate cried for retribution...