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HALFBACKS: Jerry Stovall, 21, Louisiana State; 6 ft. 2 in., 200 lbs. Mel Renfro, 20, Oregon; 6 ft., 190 lbs. "Stovall is the complete football player." reads a scouting report. "Runner, receiver, defensive player, kicker. Comes up with the big play when it's needed." Oregon's Renfro can sprint 100 yds. in 9.6 sec., change direction in a flash; he still has a year of college to go, but the scouts consider him the best running back in the country: "No senior can run as well." U.C.L.A.'s Kermit Alexander...
...minute from the end of the game Harvard again had a first down on the Dartmouth ten yard line, the result of a 46-yard drive. Three hasty plays set the ball on the five, in perfect position for a field goal attempt. The kicker waited eagerly, but the ball never got there. The center's hands slipped, Dartmouth took over, ran one play, and the game ended...
When the game was all over--and no one on our side could believe we'd lost--it was the extra points after the touch-downs that had made the difference. Cornell's kicking specialist, Hungarian refugee Pete Gogolak, had made good both times. Lacking a reliable kicker, the Crimson had had to play to its running strength and try for the two-pointers. As he watched both ground plays fail, Yovicsin must have been thinking of Dave Ward, the Crimson's kicker last year who went 19 for 19 a season...
Cornell Boasts Kicker...
...then there is Pete Gogolak, the well-publicized place kicker. Big Pete didn't do so well at Harvard last year and the experience seemed to bother him all season. This fall, however, Cornell assures all that his toe is well-adjusted, and the Big Red may go for some field goals if the touchdown appears too difficult a task...