Peabody Praises Harlow's Use of Defense Material

"I'm just a piddler," all-American Chub Peabody asserted yesterday noon at the coaches and sports writers weekly confab at the Palmer House where he was the guest of honor.

A "piddler" according to Chub is a "drifter," and at drifting (and then smashing) the sports writers were agreed yesterday that Peabody has no equal.

Peabody, who has already been chosen on the Fox-Movietone all-American roster now showing at the University Theatre, is now being considered along with Dick Pfister and Loren MacKinney for the Eastern team will meet the Western stars in the annual Shriners game in San Francisco.

In addition he has already had his picture taken in color by several national magazines who want him on their all-American lines.

Peabody did not reveal at yesterday's luncheon whether or not he would accept a bid to play in the East-West game if he got one--but he did venture to explain the why's and wherefores of the present Crimson line.

In the first place, Peabody gave credit to Dick Harlow and Lyal Clark "who directed us in correctly adapting our style of defensive play to our abilities."

"I'm a piddler or drifter, and Vern and Tom are power players. Dick realized this and organized our defensive strategy accordingly."

The second of three reasons for the success of the line in Chub's estimation, was that they had plenty of line scrimmage and rough work in the practice sessions.

"Finally," Chub admitted, "we all made mistakes--but we never made them at the same time. You may have seen me shaking hands with Dick Pfister after some of the plays. That's because he made tackles while I was sitting on my tail."

Head coach Dick Harlow was nowhere to be seen at yesterday's luncheon, having gone to New York for the day to speak at the sports writers clambake there. In his place Al McCoy and Lyal Clark took over the speaking duties.

McCoy, who earlier in the season jokingly told how he had taken over the team for the Dartmouth game, claimed yesterday that at no time had he ever had charge of the team during the first quarter.

Gardiner Lauded

In a more serious vein he went ahead to praise the work of Tom Gardiner just as Peabody had lauded the efforts of running mate Don Forte. "My only hope is that next year we have another tackle nearly as good as Tom Gardiner," he asserted.

Lyal Clark pinned the success of this years team on the fact that they liked contact work so much. In fact, he claims that keeping them from overdoing the rough stuff was his hardest job.