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...William Emper...
...October 1975. In a play immortalized across the nation's sports pages by a UPI photographer, Harvard cornerback Billy Emper makes one of the single greatest plays ever in Harvard sports. With Dartmouth threatening to overturn the Crimson, Emper comes all the way across the field, leaps like a cross between Doctor J and an Acapulco cliff diver, and ticks away what seems like a certain long-bomb TD pass with his fingertip...
...Crimson freshman squad he started at cornerback, accounting for 16 tackles and assisting on seven more. In his sophomore year he played back-up to captain Bill Emper, while accounting for eight tackles, mostly on the special teams...
...those seniors that Potysman replaced was another out of the "Little Big Man" mould, last year's Captain Billy Emper. Like his Illinoian counterpart. Emper week in and week out had to cover receivers that grotesquely outweighed him and towered over him. The usual result: the ends came up empty-handed and Emper was twice named to the All-Ivy squad...
...this is not to say that Potysman will follow in the cleat-marks of Emper, but it's well known that Yale boasts a pair of trucks with sure hands at the ends in John Spagnola and Bob Krytyniak and that all 70 inches of Potysman will have a full day's work ahead of them tomorrow at the Yale Bowl...