Odell Praises Gannon, Fisher, Admits 'Harvard Seared Us'

"I thought we were whupped" was the word from Yale's Howie Odell, in the dressing room after Saturday's game. There, surrounded by mobs of admiring alumni and members of the working press, he admitted that "not until four minutes before the end of the game was I sure of the outcome."

Although busy extolling the work of his own Fred Nadherny, Levi Jackson, and Company, Odell nevertheless did find time to praise Harvard's "Chip" Gannon for "his splendid work." On the line, he also gave accolades to center Jack Fisher who "was raising hell in there all afternoon." As for the team as a whole, Odell declared that it was "by far the best Harvard team I have ever faced as a Yale coach."