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...League can expect at least one more year of trouble from Providence. The entire backfield will return next season, as well as five experienced forwards. Brown's loses only one star through graduation -- Gary Kaufman, the league's second highest scorer this year with six goals and one assist...
...Yovicsin, the most enjoyable part of football is "getting on the field with sweats and personally teaching a player some skill." A former all-Middle Atlantic end and a Philadelphia Eagle, Yovicsin coached the backfield and ends himself during his first years at Harvard, just as at Gettysburg College and several high schools previously. As his staff has expanded and he has had to assume more public relations duties, he has lost the firsthand contact with players. He has gradually become accustomed to the outside responsibilities of a coach, but he reminisces about that "on-the-field coaching which nothing...
...Choquette, on the other hand, had to work his way up to greatness. He was not very successful his first two years because we kept shuffling him around the backfield. Finally I told him, 'You're our fullback -- that's where you belong.' He's been the team's unsung hero ever since...
Anybody who tuned in late to last week's Notre Dame-Duke game must have wondered where the first-string went. Would you believe a Notre Dame backfield composed of Belden, Wen-gierski, Lamantia and Kelly? Well, Terry Hanratty and Jim Seymour (TIME cover, Oct. 28) were in there for the first half. Quarterback Hanratty completed eight out of 13 passes for 127 yds.; and three of those tosses-one for a touchdown-went to Seymour, who had obviously recovered from the sprained ankle he suffered two weeks before against Oklahoma. Muscling up for this week's collision...
...odds are that Princeton with its whole backfield healthy will continue its strong play of the last four weeks and defeat Yale, about...