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...fact, with the exception of Yale's own Carmen Cozza, every head coach in the league picked the Bulldogs to grab the third consecutive title, and fifth in the last six during a recent Ivy League telephone press conference...
...honestly feel the race will go down to the wire," Cozza said. "Several teams have a shot at the title, Harvard, Cornell and Brown will be in the thick of it. I don't know if you can count anybody out. Any team can beat any other team in the League on any given...
...your big defensive guns back, primed and ready to go. Also back is tailback Rich Diana, only the third Yale runner ever to gain more than 1000 yards in a season. Just as importantly, senior quarterback John Rogan and a crop of talented receivers are back, promising to make Cozza's multiple-I formation a potent threat. Rogan will be looking for favorite receiver Curtis Grieve; that combination, as Harvard fans will painfully remember, buried the Crimson last November. All these potential offensive fireworks depend on Cozza's success in rebuilding his offensive line, decimated by graduation. That, he cautions...
...Cozza's squads all display smothering defensive prowess, and five starters are coming back from the 1980 defensive unit which gave up just 12 points per game. Two of those five copped All-League honors, although Cozza will have to find a replacement for All-Ivy defensive captains, middleguard Kevin Czinger. With two part-time linebacking regulars--Jeff Rohrer and Jay Sneider-- returning in good form, the linebacking cores should be more than adequate...
...Cozza points to the defensive seconders as one possible area of concern where "Pat Conrad is the only good, experienced man returning." Overall, the weaknesses seem to be few and far between, although as Cozza points out, "We're one-deep, like most teams in the league." An injury to Diana or Rogan could prove difficult to adjust to, as could a failure of the inexperienced offensive line and defensive secondary. Besides Harvard, which the Crimson Sports Cube picks to finish a relatively close second for the year, the Ivy elite for 1981 should include--in no certain order-- Princeton...