Macdonald--

tant recommended complete rest, heat, and massage, and hoped to have him ready for the Princeton game on November 4. However, in the week of the Princeton game it was decided that he was not ready to play.

Abdominal Pain Before Army

"The Harvard Medical Staff expected Macdonald to play against Army until he was stricken with an attack of acute abdominal pain on Wednesday night, November 8." On Thursday morning he was sent to Stillman Infirmary with an elevated blood count, appendicitis being suspected. "He was discharged from the Infirmary Friday afternoon, but the Harvard Medical Staff decided his physical condition was not such as to warrant his playing against Army."

The statement concerning the most widely publicized Harvard athletic injury in history was made in answer to repeated inquiries as to the reason the Crimson leader was sidelined for such a long time. It concluded by saying "Macdonald now is in first class physical condition."