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...goals against Quincy, the league's doormat, in three games attest that Dunster lacks something. According to captain Steve Simpson it isn't teamwork, since the team has no individual stars, or a strong defense, since Dunster has been scored upon only twice. However, unless Dunster can demonstrate some offensive punch, Simpson's optimism will be little more than empty boasting...
...salon door lies a fluffy pink doormat. Her terrace overlooks a river that winds through one of Europe's most romantic cities, the ancestral home of many of the Continent's most dashing and beautiful women. "My clients prefer the styles of Chanel and Givenchy," coos the grey-haired grande dame of haute couture. But the city is not Paris, the river not the Seine, and madame is not Coco. She is Klara Rothschild of Budapest, oracle of fashion throughout Communist Europe, recipient of the Order of Labor in the People's Republic of Hungary...
...fooled. Columbia is the doormat of the Ivy League, and when the Crimson starts meeting Ivy powerhouses like Brown...As Munro says, it's going to be a rough season...
...Lions were the doormat of the Ivy League season last year with an 0-6-1 record, and lost most of their lettermen from that inept eleven. The only experienced players on the 1964 roster are All-Ivy halfback Steve Robinson and right wing Waldemar Schulz. In the team's first two games of the season Schulz broke the fibula in his right leg and Robinson dislocated a shoulder. (He has continued to play despite this handicap...
Columbia started the game surprisingly strong for a team universally touted as the league doormat for this year. Beaten repeatedly to loose balls in the Crimson zone, varsity backs had to play a long-kick game for most of the first half, instead of resorting to the short passing strategy that coach Bruce Munro advocates. A number of Columbia drives failed, nevertheless, to produce a score, and at the end of the period John Thorndike booted a ball bouncing around before the Ligh Blue nets past the goalie...