FOOTBALL VARSITY HONORS ED DAVIS

Naming Edmund R. Davis '46 "out-standing player of the year," Harvard's gridmen collaborated with the H.A.A. to sponsor the 1944 football banquet. Thursday night in the Lowell Dining Hall. Chester M. Pierce '48, right rackle, made the presentations of a gold football to Davis, right guard, and a pigskin inscribed "to Wally from the team" to Walter H. Trumbull, Jr. '46, quarterback and captain of the squad.

Trumbull presented silver footballs to the four coaches, Henry N. Lamar, Floyd S. Stahl, Specialist (A) 1/c Philip Piscal, and Chief Specialist (A) Richard Tuckey. Lamar in his acceptance speech requested one moment of silence for the ten men who did not finish out the season with the Crimson squad.

Edward L. Bigelow, Jr. '46, manager of the team, was awarded a silver football. H. E. "Bud" Thurman, Jr. '45 served as master of ceremonies, while over 55 trainers and squad members attended the gathering and the beer party which followed.

Davis, Pierce, and L. J. Morter of the NROTC were awarded honorable mention in the All-American football squad announced in Sunday's Boston Post.