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...some quirk of fate-or perhaps because of Hill's success as a rookie in Dallas-Yale managed to have not one, not two, but three players picked off by the pros. Eli linebacker Jim Gallagher went to Minnesota in the 12th round, while Tom Neville was snatched by Baltimore in the 14th round and fullback Don Martin, who was impressive in post-season All-Star games, went to Oakland in, yes, the seventh round. But that was it for the Ivies...
...residence of U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. Were things really going that badly? Certainly not. To celebrate the founding of the Saigon Yale Club, the famed Whiffenpoof Song (an adaptation of one of Rudyard Kipling's glamorizations of the white man's burden) was being sung by old Eli Bunker, class of '16, and some 15 others, among them a U.S. general who graced the occasion in a Y-inscribed blue T shirt. The ceremony was complete with derisive remarks about Harvard from the ambassador himself. Presumably the newest Yale Club is due for eventual Vietnamization...
...Eli drive following the Crimson's first score in the second period...
...first outright win over the Eli for this year's seniors, not counting the 29-29 victory two years ago. "It feels great, absolutely outasight," captain Gary Farneti said in the locker room after the game...
Farneti spearheaded what had to be the Crimson's finest defensive effort of the season; together with Chris Doyle and Brad Fenton and just about every one else on the defensive unit, Farneti stopped Eli drives time and again in crucial situations...