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PENNSYLVANIA: The Quakers finished fourth last season, but showed the Crimson an example of their deadly multiple offense, run by Larry Purdy with help from Dave Coffin, perhaps the fastest man in the League, Fred Doelling and Ed Goodwin. The return of that entire backfield, along with nine of last year's starting eleven, gives coach Steve Sebo reason to hope for an Ivy League title. Other outstanding returnees among 22 of 32 lettermen are ends Barney Berlinger, and Jon Greenawalt, center Ron Champion and halfback Jack Hanlon...
Coach John Yovicsin expresesd pleasure at his team's rating, although he was quoted as saying, "We have a veteran backfield, but the team is still a question mark. We lost all but one starter in the line...
...Scarcely a week after Eddie Erdelatz resigned as head football coach, apparently in pique at Academy refusal to give athletes special privileges, Navy picked his successor: Wayne Hardin, 32, for four years backfield coach under Erdelatz. Captain Slade Cutter, Navy's athletic director, pointedly described Hardin as "a man who knows the problems at the Naval Academy and sympathizes with them...
...Crimson will have portions of other athletic squads at most starting positions. Backfield men from John Yovicsin's eleven, Charlie Ravenel, Chet Boulris and Charlie Leamy, will be at left field, third base and center field, while basketball standout George Harrington will start at second base, squash player John Davis will be behind the plate, and hockey defenseman Mo Balboni will probably start in right field...
...After screening 40 football coaches for the job vacated by retiring Earl Blaik. Army went to its own practice field for his successor: Dale Hall. 34, for the past three seasons defensive backfield coach under Blaik. Hall, whose bespectacled, scholarly look belies his record as an all-round athlete, was an all-American basketball player at West Point, played halfback on Army teams of the Blanchard-Davis era, resigned his infantry commission to take up coaching...