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Either team could have won the game if they had a man capable of kicking extra points, but lack of a place-kicker hurt the Crimson more than the home team. In the fourth quarter, Harvard was on the Princeton 12-yard line with fourth and 8. John Ballantyne's pass to Neil Hurley was incomplete, and Harvard lost the ball on downs -- in what would ordinarily be close field-goal range...
...Holy Cross yesterday, his face racked with pain as a doctor set the broken bone in his left leg. The blond freshman punter had almost singlehandedly kept the Crimson alive in the first half, but now he was out for the season--the victim of a roughing-the-kicker tackle in the third quarter...
Freshman Sione Tupouniua from the Tonga Islands looms as the front line (or scrum's) top prospect. Sione came out for the team in the fall, wanting to play barefoot a la Michigan State kicker Dick Kenney. He competed in one game without shoes before giving in to the concern his fellow players had for his health. But that didn't harm his play. Sione's speedy 210 pounds has made him a feared tackler of enemy ball-carriers...
...annual pro-football draft, as the A.F.L. took 18 hours to divvy up 253 college players, and the older National Football League took 36 hours to draft 305. The Washington Redskins, whose talent for burlesque is fairly obvious (season's record: five wins, six losses), drafted Princeton Place Kicker Charlie Gogolak as their No. 1 choice, giving him a modest $15,000 bonus, and announced afterward that they were insuring Charlie's kicking foot with Lloyd's of London...
Davenport's offense looks impressive on paper, but has failed to average much more than a touchdown per game. Versatile Ken Smith, halfback, linebacker, place kicker, and punter, and halfback Gary Howard are the key figures in Davenport's offense...