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...from Dave Coffin, perhaps the fastest man in the League, Fred Doelling and Ed Goodwin. The return of that entire backfield, along with nine of last year's starting eleven, gives coach Steve Sebo reason to hope for an Ivy League title. Other outstanding returnees among 22 of 32 lettermen are ends Barney Berlinger, and Jon Greenawalt, center Ron Champion and halfback Jack Hanlon...
DARTMOUTH: A title winenr can never be written off for the following season, but coach Bob Blackman finds himself with only half his lettermen returning. He faces a major problem replacing tackle and captain Al Krutsch, and hard-running backs Jim Burke and Brian Hepburn, though quarterback Bill Gundy and halfback Jake Crouthamel return. The Indians will get scalped on the line...
BROWN: The Bruins have lost more of their 1958 football machine than any of the other teams--21 of 30 lettermen, a coach, and an offense. Hopes rest mainly on the shoulders of fullback Paul Choquette, second best rusher in the Ivy League last year. Coach John McLaughry's new "side-saddle T" faces some hard ridin...
...coached by his old master, Don Faurot, sat through a season of agonizing (2-7-1) defeat. He learned to tone down his blasts, worked so hard at his job that he landed in a hospital, gradually won a place at his old school. This season, with 24 returning lettermen, was to be the year for North Carolina. But fortnight ago, his huge 240-lb. body covered with a red rash, Jim Tatum was rushed to the university hospital. Doctors diagnosed an overwhelming attack of a "common type of virus" that had affected his vital organs. Last week...
...Balboni, the game was something of a personal triumph. One of only three returning lettermen last March, he had been shunted to a back-seat role for most of the season. But yesterday he came into his own at last, slamming out two singles and a grand slam home-run. The latter hit sewed up the game for the Crimson and doubtless will be many times celebrated in story when Balboni sits down with his grandchildren years hence...