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Several members of the Harvard football squad will report for action after resting up from the bruising work of the gridiron season. T. G. Upton '31, lengthy center, W. R. Harper '30, S. C. Burns ocC, and Vahan Moushegian '32 are among those who will forsake the turf for the court. The return of so many regulars and the addition of a number of last year's Freshman players, should enable Coach Wachter to send a strong and experienced team into action...
Yale's 1929 eleven will trot out on to the Stadium turf this afternoon a slight favorite over Captain Barrett's Crimson-jerseyed gridiron cohorts. The basis for the Eli's supposed superiority is rather a comparison of previous records than any firm conviction among Yale rooters that the New Haven contingent is actually much stronger than the Cambridge outfit...
Yesterday's snowfall, while it turned streets and sidewalks into pools of slush, did no harm to the turf in the Stadium. The H. A. A. is provided with 6000 square yards of canvas tarpaulins, with which the playing field is covered every night...
This news will be a great relief to undergraduates who had visions yesterday of a gridiron covered with snow, and a mass of soggy turf tomorrow on which the Crimson would face the Bulldogs in the classic game of the season...
Died. Jack L. Dempsey,* oldtime turf writer, chart maker for Daily Racing Form; at Dallas; of heart failure. The day he died he picked five out of six winners at Arlington Downs track (between Dallas & Fort Worth...