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Ex-Tailback Spreyer Will Begin Officers Training

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Private Charles F. Spreyer, Harvard's tailback and signal caller in 1939 and 1940, who was drafted last summer prior to his Senior year, has been selected to attend the special officer candidate training school at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Excellent ability and aptitude for military science and tactics won him a place on the list of those chosen to go to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for further artillery officer training. Spreyer, a dangerous climax runner, had been expected to be the mainstay of the Crimson backfield this fall.

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