Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-03
HERE'S THE STORY

HERE'S THE STORY
But this is exactly what hap
pened, and you can write your
own ticket. Harvard had an ALI
America football player this semes-i
ter for the first time, almost since
they planted the Washington elm
in Cambridge.
His name was Endicott (Chub)
Peabody III, as you may have
heard. and news about him began
to get red hot near the end of the
schedule, just as Harvard was
steaming up full pressure for their
final and traditional battle with
Yale.
It was the Tuesday before the
Yale game when a photographer
showed up at Harvard practice and
said he'd been commissioned by
a national magazine-the big one
with all the pictures, or should l
lust come right on out ana say
Life ?-to take a picture OF Pea
'ibody for the All-Amerlca team
|they were going TO run pretty
shortly.
Harlow said not by dang sight.
/ don't know where he got his
statistics but he said a positive
link seemed to hound every ath-
Ilete fortunate enough to be fea-
ltured heavily in that publication.
THE Life, said he, had gone to
town on Is different athletes, and
Iall but Joe Louis had promptly got
knocked for a loop.
LEARNED HIS LESSON
He couldn't subject a fine and
deserving boy such as Peabody to
THAT sort of awful jinx, he said,
land then he went on further to
ISay:
"You fellows probably think
I'm crazy, but never in my life
have 1 ever changed q decision
on something such as this that
something terrible didn't happen.
II all dates to something that
happened when 1 was coaching
at Penn State and I've never
forgotten II. / had q fine foot
ball player there and they
wanted me to let him out OF
Spring practice one time so he
could run i'm q track meet.
az refused, but they begged,
and finally 1 reconsidered. The
boy entered the meet, ran his
race and won II, and was killed
by a bolt of lightning just as he
crossed the finish line"
So Harlow wouldn't let the
photographer take the photograph,
land the snapshooter reported back
Ito his office. The editors called
bill Bingham, Harvard director OF
Iathletics. and explained that they
had TO have Peabody's picture or
their spread would be no good.
They won Bingham over and he
Ipersuaded Harlow to change his
Imind. although Harlow still said
Inc wasn't very happy about it, and
Iresolutely feared the worst.
PEABODY POSES
But now il was the next day,
(which was the Wednesday before
1.-The Yale game, and practice was
stopped while Peabody posed, or,
at least Peabody's part OF IT was
stopped while he went through his
PAGES for the shutter-snapper in a
liar corner of the field.
Finally il was over and the
powerful young Blue Blood came
Igalloping back TO rejoin the scrim-
image in which he'd gloried all
wear, and in which he'd never even
lbeen bruised.
On the very first play there
latter. he got il!
Yep he went under a pile, and
The didn't get up!
Ii was his leg. They had 10 help
him out and into the inhrmary. 1t
wasn't a break, but a terrific
lbr1Iise that wound up as a double
charley horse. They baked II
Thursday and Friday and almost
Iup 10 game time Saturday. He
Jumped through the Yale game at
half speed, playing well but not
starring.
II told YOU" said Harlow.
What's the verdict, DIR. Watson?
Gen. Hugh y. Johns n,
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