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Columbia's backfield won't terrify anyone this season. Roberts' successor is junior Rick Ballantine, who played as a defensive back last year. He is a fair runner; against Lafayette he carried the ball 19 times for 98 yards. Vying with Ballantine for the starting quarterback role is sophomore John Burns. He's a passer--sort of. Against Lafayette he completed two of thirteen throws...
Columbia's line is something quite different from the collection of nonentities in the backfield, and Coach Buff Donnelli calls the line his most talented since the championship team...
Harvard, with the exception of two defensive positions hit by injuries, will probably start the same team that faced Holy Cross last week, with Bobby Leo, Tom Choquette, and Wally Grant joining quarterback John McCluskey in the offensive backfield...
...Indians massacred New Hampshire last year, 40-0, and today's game won't be much different. Dartmouth's fleet backfield, led by quarterback Mickey Beard, should have little difficulty running over, Wildcat defense. The score can be as under, around, and through the porous big as Dartmouth Coach Bob Blackman wants to make it, and anyone who was in Harvard Stadium on October 24, 1964, knows the extent of Blackman's compassion...
Last year they were the most exciting team in the U.S. This year they may be merely the best. John Huarte, the 1964 Heisman Trophy winner, was gone. And there was talk that with a backfield of Zloch, Eddy, Wolski and Conjar, Notre Dame Coach Ara Parseghian was opening an all-purpose delicatessen instead of fielding a football team. But just for practice, Notre Dame's 1965 varsity overwhelmed an alumni squad quarterbacked by Huarte, 72-0. And last week they opened the season by clobbering California...