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BETWEEN THE LINES

With the Princeton game two weeks off, Lloyd Jordan's varsity received its first holiday from combat yesterday. The squad spent the afternoon in Dillon Field House watching movies of the Dartmouth game.

At the Hotel Vendome football writers luncheon, Jordan told the assembled scribes that his motion pictures failed to show Dartmouth end Don Myers giving Dick Clasby the Willbanks Smith treatment. The movies, according to Jordan, show the big end bearing down on Clasby and immediately flash to the umpire pacing off the penalty yardage.

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The movies did show, however, that, but for one block, Fred Ravreby could have gone all the way on a pass from Clasby on the next to last play of the game. The Crimson practiced this play all last week.

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Globe sports editor Jerry Nason, who covered the Princeton-Cornell game, commented at yesterday's luncheon that the greatest cheer from the Palmer Stadium crowd had come when the halftime Harvard score was announced--Harvard 20, Dartmouth 6.

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Nason also noted that Princeton's Dick Kazmaler was the greatest back he has seen in the past three years, is constantly called "All-American Dick Kazmaier," and has never been picked to an All-American team. Kazmaler completed 15 of 17 passes Saturday, and, running and passing, accounted for 360 yards of the Tigers' total yardage gain.

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Alva "Red" Kelley, whose Brown team goes to Old Nassau next Saturday, speculated upon the near-impossibility of stopping Princeton's optional running pass. Representing single-wing power at its best, this play has Kazmaler throwing short to his blocking back, throwing long to an end, or running the ball. Kelley's only suggestion was to throw out a flanking end who would merely stand around and wait in the short-pass reception zone.

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Jordan also admitted that his Harvard players had seemed tired last Monday or Tuesday after their efforts against Army. "This weekend," the coach sighed, "the spirit was willing, the flesh was weak, and we're back to fundamentals."

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