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Pennsylvania played its worst game of the season against Harvard last Saturday, missing every break and making many mistakes. It won't happen again. In a stunner, Mr. Z and his surprising crew, which played Harvard even in the second half, will top Dowling's Yalies...
...been said all week. Two years ago, a similarly underrated Yovicsin team rolled undefeated up to the Princeton game, but expired on a fourth down and one at the Tiger 25. This could happen today. Princeton has all the makings of a superb football team: good runners and a sound defense. Brown felt the crush last week, and unless Harvard goes all out, that six hour trip home could seem considerably longer. On the record, Harvard should be a heavy favorite by as much as 24-6. By instinct, I would pick Princeton. With prayer, however, I call a seventh...
...Real Fadeaway? Beyond such diplomatic considerations, there was the question of what would happen militarily if the U.S. did call off its bombers. For weeks, the Communists had been scaling down the fighting, withdrawing some 40,000 front-line troops, mostly to sanctuaries on or near the borders of Cambodia and Laos. U.S. casualties dipped to 100 killed three weeks ago, the lowest level in 14 months; two weeks ago, the dead totaled 109, the second lowest...
...Shank! As part of a series of articles for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Plimpton set out to play in three tournaments against such golfing greats as Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. What happens to him in the process shouldn't happen to a golf ball. His nerve synapses collapse at the thought of the next day's match. His mind invents a nightmarish fantasy in which a team of inept Japanese admirals, located somewhere in his brain, shout useless instructions through the imaginary voice tubes of his creaking body machinery in an effort to help him hit the ball correctly...
Malin said that Providence should have one or two good players culled from the local high schools. "If these few stars prove effective and if Providence really hustles, anything could happen," Malin said...