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...Lions are loaded. It came as no surprise Saturday when coach Buff Donelli's men marched over Yale, 11-0, in the Bowl. In its first three games, Columbia has amassed a surprising total of 81 points. (The Lions trounced Brown, 50-0, in their opener, and scored three TD's in their 30-20 upset-loss to Princeton in the second game...
Vasell tried to pass the Lions back into the game, and he nearly did it. But with third and five on the Harvard 11 and Savini warming up his kicking too and Lion coach Buff Donelli holding a tee. Vasell called a pass. End Dave Hudepohl smashed through the weakening Columbia line and hurried Vasell, who tossed the ball to the Crimson's Tom Boone on the five. That was it.A Columbia end eludes a Crimson defender and snares one of Vasell's passes...
Morale, the stuff that holds a team together, is beginning to be a problem for Crimson coach John Yovicsin and Columbia mentor Buff Donelli. One more loss would be enough to put either squad into the lulled state of passive acceptance that is almost impossible to shake...
COLUMBIA: The Lions still need a quarterback--any quarterback. Coach Buff Donelli has already matched last years' victory total, but another triumph may be a long time in the making. Harvey Brookins is the best backfield hold-over, and the maturing of last year's freshman team--the best in ten years--may provide help...
Though the Crimson line held the Columbia offense well, the Lions themselves often seemed to make the defensive job easier. Coach Buff Donelli introduced a few surprise formations in the game--the split-T with a man in motion and a variation of the single wing which he calls the X formation--but they seemed to confuse his own men more than the Crimson. Several big losses and a few of the fumbles were due to missed backfield connections on these plays, flashy as they semed when they worked, and Donelli probably wishes he had given his team more practice...