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...Columbia game marked the first real test of the Harvard bench. Wing fullback Phil Axten was out with eight stitches over his eye from the Amherst game, and linkman Emanuel Ekama was ejected for fighting early in the first period...
...hailed as the year of the quarterback on college gridirons, so 1971 is rapidly shaping up as the year of the rookie quarterback in the National Football League. In the opening games of the season, a number of confident young post-grads have gotten off the bench and gone into the lineup to show how well they can do. One reason for their precocious success is that more and more colleges are turning to pro-type offense with an emphasis on drop-back passing. Another is, simply, that the new boys have an abundant supply of talent. Herewith...
...Indians are for real; the Quakers aren't. There will be no Drexel Tech first game to make the Quakers look better. There will be no Astro-Turf to help Penn bounce back up. And worst of all, there will be no Lehigh or Brown players on the opposition bench...
...last time a Columbia football team came to Cambridge. Harvard used everybody on the bench and still couldn't keep the score respectable...
...further complicate matters, many players feel that Frank Guerra, a three year bench-warmer, is the best quarterback, and Restic himself feels that sophomore Jim Stoekel has the best command of the offensive, but lacks experience...