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...Elis (1-0 league, 2-1 overall) were hoist with their own petard when coach Carm Cozza decided to go for a two-point conversion while trailing, 28-27, with 1:28 to go. The bold stratagem failed when end John Spagnola (nine catches for 153 yards) could not pluck quarterback Pat O'Brien's pass out of a crowd in the endzone...
...YALE: The Elis will be very conspicuous by super back John Pagliaro's absence, but nonetheless very visible in their accustomed position near the top of the heap. And while Harvard coach Joe Restic has been known to call Yale mentor Carmen Cozza "a little boy," Cozza's big boys have lost an average of 2.5 league games per season over the last five falls...
...home coming (as if coming home to Ithaca wasn't bad enough in itself) with a 28-0 shellacking of the Big (Red) blushers. Bulldog John Pagliaro spearheaded a growling ground assault with 174 yards and a pair of touchdowns (he now has 11) before a merciful Carmen Cozza sidelined the second leading all-time career Eli rusher in the fourth quarter...
...Saturday's success was more than a matter of doing the same old things better than before. Dartmouth proved against Yale a week ago that a football team has got to be flexible. Carm Cozza's charges have been lining up in that Power I for years, daring the opposition to stop them. Harvard took Ivy League titles in 1974 and 1975 by doing just that, throwing the whole defense against the Eli running game and holding that line...
...Blackman will have to outflex Joe Restic who, along with Brown's John Anderson and Yale's Carm Cozza, represents the power elite that succeeded Blackman in the Ivy throne room. Restic came to Cambridge the year Blackman went west, young man, and today's contest marks their initial meeting. It won't be their last...