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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1921
Page
18
Old Yale athletes are praised for revived Bulldog spirit shown twice this year under fire, signaling a return of the fighting Yale ethos that once defined Yale teams and fans.
The piece praises Yale football after a hard fought win over Princeton highlighting coach Tad Jones and Captain Mac Aldrich. It credits fighting spirit and a solid line with back field leadership from O Hearn Aldrich Jordan and Mallory while noting no flashy plays, and wonders what they will pull for Harvard next.
Hamilton N Y November 16 Colgate meets Brown in Providence in a decisive senior clash after prior defeats. Colgate previously beat Brown 84 4 in 1916 post season and 14 0 in 2019 while Brown won 1920 two touchdowns. The Saturday contest could settle their three year matchup with Colgate remaining to face Columbia on Thanksgiving in Newark.
Yale plans to field the same lineup that beat the Tigers in the Eli Bowl for the Harvard game at Cambridge Stadium. Diller will be in the lineup despite resting last Saturday, with Guernsey possibly switching to right guard and Harry Cross entering at right guard. Blair may see part of the Harvard encounter if recovered, while Quaile and others participate in practice and scrimmages to correct faults ahead of the season finale.
The annual Juniors versus Seniors football game will be played at the Heights next Friday. The contest is expected to be decisive with a slight edge favoring the Juniors.
Cornell looms as a likely winner of the interstate crosscountry championship. The event runs Saturday at Van Cortland Park New York with Ithaca teams strong contenders and the Ithacans seen as hard to beat.
Cornell won the Syracuse Invitation, the Harvard Cornell race, and the quadrangular meet with Penn, Columbia and Dartmouth last Saturday. The team features veterans under trainer Moakley and strong contenders like R. E. Brown N. P. Brown Carter and Irish, all part of the Oxford squad last fall. Yale underwhelmed in Syracuse but could rebound in New York while Penn Princeton Dartmouth MIT and Columbia have shown only middling results.
Syracuse coach Chick Meehan drove the orange through stiff scrimmage with freshmen as Dartmouth plans an aerial assault at the Polo Grounds. Quarterback Harry Herbert suffered a cracked vertebrae and possible paralysis, possibly ending his season. Willard Anderson will start at quarterback with Jim Robertson flagged as a key Dartmouth threat.
In Concord the McAllister School Midgets and Allen Military School Midgets West Newton fought to a 6 to 6 tie. Lowell scored for Allen in the first half and Chester Brown tied the game for McAllister in the second half on straight line plays.
A satirical roster parodies elites and workers in playful profiles. It lists characters like Tarzan-Skippit the janitor and Nellie Rourke the cook, noting comical inventions and absurd claims while praising democracy and exposing social pretensions.
At Bowdoin College Athletic Council meeting in Brunswick Maine on November 15 twenty one men received football letters for the season. Seven letter recipients are Massachusetts natives with players from Maine California and New Hampshire also named. Manager William Ludden will receive a letter after books are audited.
Frank Jedlinski, a rising local heavyweight, meets Joe Stecker in a finish match at the Grand Opera House replacing John Grando vich. Jedlinski weighs 212 pounds and matches Stecker in height, with promoter Tuohey predicting an exciting clash as fans expect a competitive battle from two seasoned fighters.
Miss Cecil Leitch the British French and Canadian woman golf champion sails for Liverpool today aboard the Empress of France. She is accompanied by her sister Edith.
NEW HAVEN November 15 Plans have been settled for the departure of the teamThursday It will not visit the Bowl but will depart for Boston about 2 oclock going to its quarters at the Belmont Country Club About 40 players will accompany the team the remainder of the substitutes going to Boston Saturday morning
NEW HAVEN November 15 Yale followers have not found Harvard backers willing to risk even money. Yale wagers remain at 5 to 4 and 5 to 3 while Crimson supporters look to cover.
Harvard Club of New York will run a special train with parlor and dining cars to Boston for the Harvard Yale football game. The Boston and Albany Railroad adds extra trains and cars on Saturday to handle increased traffic to Allston Station near the stadium. The Harlem Club train departs New York at 7:00 a.m. via Springfield arriving at 1:00 p.m. and returns from Beacon Park yard at 5:06 p.m. to New York by 11:20 p.m.
The column reviews Georgia Tech's upset of Georgetown in Atlanta and anticipates a big Boston College test for Georgetown at Braves Field. It discusses coach opinions on Harvard vs Yale, wrestling title dynamics with Plestina and Pesek, promoter Alec McLean’s ventures, hockey promoter tensions, and a Yale Harvard touchdown history question referencing 1916 Neville.
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