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...early-season game is much to Dartmouth's advantage. Princeton, though with 22 returning lettermen, lost 17 players from its 1965 team through graduation and must use new personnel, especially on the offense. Despite occasional sharp running and passing from tailback Dick Bracken and fullback Bill Berkley, the Tiger offense simply has not jelled into a consistent unit. The return of injured tailback Bob Weber should help...
Fencing and skiing demonstrate an equally scarce participation from upperclassmen. It is these individual sports, which offer less rigid training schedules, that seniors avoid. In fact, football, soccer, hockey, and baseball teams all have a large jump in lettermen from the sophomore to junior year. These sports also have junior varsity teams that serve as training grounds. Yovicsin, a firm believer in experience and careful play, arranges for Harvard to have more junior varsity games than anyone else in the league. He never has more than five sophomore regulars on his teams, even with the two-platoon system...
Harvard trounced Navy last year, 9-0, as the Middies had their worst season since 1958. With seven of eight lettermen returning this year. Navy is now a much deeper squad and chalked up an impressive 5-4 victory over Dartmouth--the team which pressed Harvard hard Wednesday...
Brown did comparatively well in the Eastern Sprints last May, and a month later led the Intercollegiate Rowing Association championship race for the first two miles before bowing to Navy. Six lettermen from that varsity shell have returned this year...
...Quakers, despite 16 returning lettermen, haven't been able to win an Ivy game. They've lost to powerful Yale and a solid Brown team...