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Along with Foker, coach Floyd Wilson will start his usual contingent, including Bob Repetto, Bob Bowditch, George Harrington, and Mike Donohue. Wilson fears a pre-Christmas letdown, but is pleased with his team's improvement...
...Texas Christian (8-2)-suffered the understandable letdown and lost to Southern Methodist 20-13 after clinching the Southwest Conference title and a place in the Cotton Bowl with a competent but starless team...
...Iowa (6-1-1)-yielded its top rank with a letdown after clinching the Rose Bowl bid, lost to aroused Ohio State...
Depth and the letdown following the Yale meet proved the ruin of the Crimson. Jed Fitzgerald, the next harrier after Benjamin, finished twentieth, and other disappointments followed. Coach Bill McCurdy noted Thursday that "if one of our top five goes, the whole meet goes." Yesterday, the whole team caved in, although their 135-138 loss to fourth-place Brown was not as bad as it could have been...
...Crimson will be favored this afternoon, but there is considerable fear in some circles that a letdown may be impending, after the Dartmouth win. Coach Yovicsin himself seems to be somewhat uneasy about the matter. He said yesterday afternoon that he had no worries on the score of overconfidence, but also remarked that "there are other kinds of a letdown, you know...