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Brown, which finished with a 5-2 record last year has been dubbed "the team to beat" this fall. As Yale's coach Carmen Cozza commented: "They're big, experienced and have some exceptional talent in some key areas...
Last year, Dartmouth was expected to languish in the second division, but quarterback Buddy Teevens led his offense to a league-high 170 points as the Big Green captured the Ivy crown. In addition, Teevens led the league in passing and was second in total offense to Harvard's long-lost Larry Brown. Teevens is gone this year, but his favorite target, Dave Shula returns at split end, where he caught a league-leading 39 passes in 1978. However, getting the ball to Shula may be a problem. Larry Mergerum, who backed up Tevens last year, saw only three quarters...
Once again the big question on offense centers on the quarterback position. Cozza will have to choose his third quarterback in as many years from among a field of two: '78 backup Dennis Dunn and rifle armed sophomore John Rogan...
...ventured that Ford played football without a helmet; that jab came to sum up the former Michigan center, who actually played with his helmet, and very well, too--oddly enough, the notoriously clumsy Ford was probably the best athlete of any President of the 20th century. But still a big lunk: that Nixon would make Ford President, after all his yammering about respect for the office, serves as a good index of how far gone that old carpetbagger really...
...must lead an interesting life. There's no definitive Nixon biography yet, but the books of Woodward and Bernstein hint at just how fascinating that book could be. There's no definitive LBJ biography yet either, mostly because Bill Moyers won't write it, but his, too, was a big life, a larger-than-life life. But Jerry Ford comes from a different mold--he fell into his job. He made it to the top the way officers advance in the Army: he got along by going along. And that meant being a cipher...