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Wings Charlie Thomas and Solomon Gomez completely dazzled the backfield, and Harvard goalie Bill Meyers made several sensational saves, as the varsity soccer team whitewashed the Connecticut Huskies, 5-0, yesterday on Cumnock Field...
Contests with Northeastern have been mismatches in recent years. An unusually strong Crimson backfield and an alert defense put the game out of the Huskies' reach after little more than ten minutes of playing time...
...Harvard defense in the first half was awesome, holding the Northeastern backfield to 75 yards total offense, and kicker Brock Roben dumped the Huskies into poor field position twice with 45 yard punts. When a trio of Harvard defenders smothered a punt and end Steve Anderson fell on it for the third Harvard touchdown in 16 minutes, Northeastern was broken...
Harvard's backfield is small, but extremely elusive and hard-running. The Brown Daily Herald, however, proclaims the Bruin backs as the best in the East, and the claim may have some validity. Unless the Crimson can integrate its timing in practice, and if the scrum has similar problems with pursuit, it could lose again...
Yale coach Carmen Cozza had nothing but praise for Hill. "I'd like to see him in the same backfield with O.J. Simpson and Leroy Keyes-he wouldn't be embarrassed." Cozza said. Dartmouth's Bob Blackman said. "He must be regarded as the most dangerous back in the history of the Ivy League...