Portfolio Suffers Stroke; Ex-Coach Introduced Pass

Rhesus J. Portfolio '00, former football much and innovator of the forward pass at Harvard, suffered a mild stroke yesterday while on a bird-watching expedition in Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Portfolio is an example for any future Harvard football aspirant. He came to Cambridge as a big, raw-boned, clumsy boy too crude in his play to make the freshman team.

By dint of everlasting perseverance, study, and self-development he went from that humble beginning to all-America fame in three years. After completing graduate work in Civil Aeronautics, Portfolio joined the coaching staff and introduced the forward pass, which he affectionately called "the bomb."

Starting from the sub-cellar, Portfolio erected a Harvard football edifice which was in those days the envy and despair of every other team in the country. The curtain was raised on a new era of Harvard happiness and on a series of victors which constituted the crop which was to be reaped from Portfolio's seeds of ingenuity and a just award of his ability.

A deep student of the sport could devote hours to a review of the games which have been played since Portfolio's yesterday, merely to note the rise and fall of the passing game.

Naturally, it was an intrinsic factor in the early days of the sport. Then it fell into gradual disease an the rushing game advanced.

After World War II, Portfolio's bomb was revived as a offensive measure when all others failed. But in recent years, as the pressure on Harvard's defense has materially lessened, the forward pass reached its proper sphere as an offensive method of no mean parts.