Egg In Your Beer

The Crimson's first score of the 1947 football season, against Western Maryland last Saturday, was set up in a very appropriate way on a play conceived by the coach and executed by the captain.

On the Varsity's second play from scrimmage, Coach Dick Harlow ordered on off-tackle slant, with Captain Vince Maravee carrying the mail. Vince dashed 51 yards to the Green and Gold's 26 yard marker before being pulled down from behind. Two plays later the Crimson scored.

Irenically enough, the "goat" on the play was backfield coach Bob Margarita's younger brother Attilie, in the lineup at left guard for Western Maryland. Harlow figured young Margarita to hold his ground on the first play, but, forgetting his instructions, to rush on the second.

Margarita obliged, and was prompty mouse-trapped completely out of the play, leaving Vince a hole big enough to drive a truck through. Brother Bob, on the Crimson bench at the time, tried to deny that the man mouse-trapped was Attilio, but with corroboration by the sports scribes, made like the Arabs of old.

The evening before the game, Harlow got together with Western Maryland's head mentor, Charlie Havens. On the condition that Havens would any nothing to his team, they looked over the movies of the Harvard-Boston College scrimmage to get Havens' comments on the Crimson's all around play.

"It would be nice if you could trust all coaches like that," said Harlow after the game. "Instead you've got cobras and pythons striking at you from all angles, and that's why I call it the "Jungle.'"

With the Crimson on the top of a 33 to 0 score going into the fourth quarter and the hall in its possession on the Green Terrors' 45 yard line, Harvard rooters began the chant, "We want a touchdown."

"So that's Harvard sportsmanship," mumbled one press-box delegate.

He's off the beam. It's simply that the only thing which makes a run-away game interesting is scoring and more scoring.