Stadium Win Over Brown Augurs Trouble for Bulldog in Yale Bowl

It's taken two months and eight games, but Saturday at Soldiers Field the Varsity football team stopped playing like eleven individuals and started working together like a bulldozer. Showing line-play, crisp tackling, and an offense, the Crimson blasted to the traditional win over Brown and thereby served notice that Yale, would have no picnic in the Bowl, come Saturday.

An hour after the game the crestfallen Brown coach Rip Engle ventured that "if the Crimson line plays the way it played today, Harvard will have a good chance at New Haven." Further he would not go, pointing out that Saturday's conditions were far different from the mud of the Bowl the week before, and that his team was "up" against the Crimson for its third game in a row.

No Injuries

Harlow let the shiny new substitution rule rest in the rulebooks, for his first-stringers were, and still are, uninjured. With the guards and tackles playing an average of 58 minutes apiece, Hal Kopp's forward wall showed it "was fundamentally sound" as Harlow put it after the contest. Ed Finn, Brown's slick quarterback was more explicit on the subject asserting that he'd "never been hit so hard, especially by that guard Drvaric."

"We were in the valley of the shadow of death in that second period," Harlow added after the game. "Gannon, O'Donnell and Glynn were all injured. If they hadn't come back . ." But apparently the Lord was with the Crimson, for the final score read Harvard 13, Brown 7.

Gannon Shines

For the first time this year number 41 looked consistently like the glittering 1946 Gannon edition, and for the first time since Virginia Jim Kenary was able to run and throw the L formation blocks. Moffle flashed per usual.

Linebacking reinforced and personally carried out by former Jayvee Mel Freedman stopped Brown backs at the tackling point instead of three yards beyond. Only in the pass defense depart- ment did the Crimson show a weakness as Finn repeatedly flipped to Nelson between the zones of the Harvard backs.

In winning its first of four Harvard stuck to its standard 1947 play curricula except for a guard around play with acting captain Jim Feinberg carrying on a pass-off from Kenary, Used but once, the play went for four yards