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Harvard at Columbia--With Richie Horner healthy and Paul Connors set to start, but whether Connors can fit in well after just a few days of practice is a big guestion. Harvard has its full forces ready. Both teams have new offensive backfield, a wealth of rookies, and untested kicking games. Look for Restic to aim his running game at the inexperienced Columbia linebackers. If the backers play hard against the run, Restic says he'll have Burke St. John throw play-action passes to mess up the Lion defense. In the end, Baker Field is ugly and Harvard will...
Brown at Yale--The best game of the weekend, with two serious title contenders slugging it out. Both teams lost talented quarterbacks--Brown lost Mark Whipple and Yale lost Pat O'Brien. Brown has a proven offensive backfield except for the quarterback; Yale does not. Brown also holds a defensive edge with just some secondary vacancies to fill. But for the sake of variety, Yale in an upset...
Connors, a talented halfback and Harvard's most-experienced backfield man, has been hampered by a groin pull throughout the preseason...
...backfield, Paul Connors, a talented starter from last year, will be trying to fill the hole left by the graduation of superback Ralph Pollillio. (Last week, Connors was nursing a groin pull and was sitting out practice.) Having lost Matt Granger and Larry Brown as well as Pollilio, Harvard faces the task of constructing almost a brand new offensive backfield. And when that backfield has to execute the complex Multiflex, the task is not easy...
...very big. Eric Spiegel should figure in at a tackle spot; but injuries could cause depth problems. Running backs Paul Connors looks like the leader, but a pre-season groin pull could hamper him. Loss of Ralph Pollilio and Matt Granger leaves Harvard with the job of reconstructing the backfield. Jon Hollingsworth, Chuck Sandor and Tom Beatrice all are contenders; but all are fairly inexperienced. Receivers Rich Horner looks like one of the Ivy League's top receivers. Letterman Chuck Marshall looks good at tight end, but he is small. Linus O'Donnell, at 6-5, 240, could...