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...pound for pound they just about equal the Crimson starting line. No one this season claimed Yale's biggest trouble is a lack of capable linemen. Most attacks center around weak pass defending and line-backing, departments in which the Eli were supposed to have most of their returning lettermen...
About 800 seats in sections 30 and 31 will be filled with former football lettermen, while 1200 seats in 31 and 32 have been allotted to squad members, managers, coaches, doctors, and such special applicants as members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers...
Included in the group were six lettermen from last year--Bill Prior, Walt McCurdy, Bill Mobraaten, Stove Davis, Johnny Rockwell, and Cliff Crosby...
...will be aided in the Lion forward wall by an all-veteran crew consisting of Gene Shekitka at center, Chuck Klemovich, who does the placekicking, and Joe Karas at guard, Clyde Hampton at the other tackle, and Adam Rakowski and Bill Lockwood on the ends. All are two year lettermen except Lockwood, who deserted the basketball court to try and fill the shoes of the departed Bill Swiacki this season. Klemovich was the outstanding lineman in the Rutgers fray by virtue of his savage tackling and three conversions. He is an expert at flat on-side kickoffs, while Russell...
When it comes to the line, the situation is a little more cloudy. By juggling around his returning lettermen, Little has managed to piece together one pretty good forward wall, but reserve strength seems lacking here. This isn't the line that held its opponents scoreless for 15 consecutive quarters last year, but it is a good...