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...football's big time. This year Michigan managed only two victories (both by a single point) in its first seven games. Beset by injuries to key players and hanged in effigy by students, Bennie decided he had had enough, stepped down last week to be replaced by his backfield assistant, Chalmers ("Bump") Elliott, 33. ¶ To the cheers of a record crowd of 40,276 at Maryland's Laurel Race Course, the U.S.'s unsung Tudor Era led for the entire mile and a half, at the finish of the $100,000 Washington, D.C. International was apparently...
...only Harvard player ruled out of the game due to injuries is halfback Tom Lawson. Larry Repsher, who showed his best running to date against Brown last week, will start at right half, in place of Lawson. Rounding out the varsity's backfield will be Charlie Ravenel, Sam Halaby, and Chet Boulris, all Crimson regulars for most of the season...
...John Yovicsin says that he plans to rely this afternoon on the same atack that he has used all season long. This evidently means an emphasis on running plays between the tackles; for the varsity has had a singular lack of success at passing and has never had the backfield speed to run the opposing ends effectively...
...often true, today's game could be decided in the relative play of the halfback lines. Varsity coach Bruce Munro intimated this yesterday when he said, "It could very well be that as Bill Rapp goes, so goes Harvard." Rapp, the Crimson's center half, heads a varsity backfield that has ranged from excellence to mediocrity all season long. Marsh McCall and Charlie Steele will be the wing halves, while Bill Driver has recovered sufficiently from his ankle injury to be used in reserve today...
Coach Henry Lamar concedes that the '62 freshman team is every bit as good as the present sophomores were last year. In fact, he gives the current team's backfield a slight edge in speed. The Yalies pride themselves in their "fast, lean Bullpups," but the freshmen match them pound for pound...