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Stop Marinaro and you stop Cornel1. Harvard's football team couldn't do it last Saturday, and on a horrible afternoon at Ithaca, when its offense sputtered and its defense collapsed, the Crimson watched its Ivy championship defense crumble...
Sophomore tailback Ed Marinaro ran wild for the Big Red, scoring five touchdowns and piling up 281 yards against Harvard's previously impregnable defense. It would have been asking a lot to expect even a consistent, explosive offense to compensate for such a performance, and the Crimson's attack was neither...
...several respects, the Crimson's trouncing of Columbia a week ago hurt it last Saturday. The loss to Boston University had planted a lingering suspicion that Harvard's offense was not nearly as effective as it was supposed to be. But the scoring orgy last week submerged that suspicion...
...Ithaca, when the Crimson stalled on occasions when it had to run consistently and control the ball, it proved that a tough defense is now, more than ever, and absolute necessity if Harvard is to have a successful season...
...Crimson's defense is no longer immovable. It was able to balance Har-vard's lack of scoring power for the first two games, and it stifled Columbia's passing attack last week...