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...last year's second place team, which had only 14 points scored against it (by Dunster in the first game of the season), are returning. Led by quarterback Rog Skemp, a high school all-stater from Superior, Wis., the Elephants will have, in addition to a very adept backfield, the heaviest if not the toughest line in the league. At one of the tackle positions Eliot will play Bill King, a 290 pound tackle who played football for Marine teams while stationed in Quantico, Va., the past three years...
...receivers are equally familiar with Patton's habits. After calling defensive signals for the Giants' backfield, Patton lines up about 7 yds. away from the man he intends to cover, always shading to one side so that the receiver will have only one clear path. At the snap of the ball, the two men start a routine as formal yet as frantic as a minuet in oldtime flicker films. Running backward all the while, Patton must counter the receiver's maneuvers without falling for a fake. To avoid head, arm and hip fakes. Patton watches a spot...
Telesh, the powerful workhorse of the Cornell backfield, was the leading ground-gainer with 80 yards in 25 carries. Hatch, just up from the JV (for whom he scored five touchdowns in two games), surprisingly led the Crimson with 40 yards on 8 attempts...
...saddest stories have been written in Cambridge and Ithaca. Cornell had based much of its hopes on halfback Marcy Tino (a converted quarterback) and quarterback Dave McKelvey, the nucleus of the legaue's best backfield. But Tino suffered a pre-season knee injury and will not play at all this year, and in the first quarter of the Big Red's opener against Colgate, McKelvey broke an ankle. He too is out for the season. As for Harvard, Charlie Ravenel, the man who has made the Crimson move for the past three years, sprained his right knee against UMass last...
...varsity lost the ball after a penalty, backfield mixup, and tumble, but managed to hold the visitors through three downs. Then an unwarranted interference violation by a Crimson back put the ball on the one and set up touchdown number four...