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With the return of 20 lettermen, including the top scorers and a dependable goalie, the Big Red is a good bet to improve on what was a characteristically strong performance last season when it posted a 18-10-2 record...
...number of other colleges already have reforms in place. At the University of Michigan's flagship Ann Arbor campus, the grades and personal records of top high school recruits are carefully checked. No blatant jock courses are offered, and close to 80% of football lettermen have received their diplomas. At the University of North Carolina's Chapel Hill campus, basketball players must sit out one game for every class cut. Duke University for many years has allowed no appeals by coaches on its strictly academic admissions standards, and Notre Dame combines tough entrance requirements with close monitoring of academic performance...
Penn and its amazing coach Jerry Berndt are gunning for their fourth straight title. Cornell lost more than half its Big Red lettermen from last year's squad, including nine defensive starters. With that in mind, it will be all Coach Maxie Baughan will be able to do to stop the hosts from staging their own, early version of the Penn Relays early this year...
Brown Coach John Rosenberg '67 says the '85 edition of Bruin football may surprise some people. "We are a middle of the pack pick right now but we think we're better than that." With 30 returning lettermen, Rosenberg may be on target...
Last year, the Crimson finished 14-11; after losing only two seniors--Brian Graham and Adam Button--this year's squad should fare even better. "While we're going to feel that loss, we've got 11 returning lettermen, five of whom are sophomores who've really come into their own," Sandler explained...