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...basketball has more players than Head Coach Frank McLaughlin knows what to do with. Tryouts, the eighth-year coach predicts, will be "by far the most competitive" he's seen, what with 15 spots on the foster waiting to be filled by some combination of the 13 returning lettermen, last year's j.v., some possible walk-ons and four recruits...
...football team tied one of the worst in the league, Cornell, 3-3, lost to Dartmouth for the fifth straight year and came within seconds of losing at Brown. So is it little wonder that the squad that lost 31 lettermen from the 1982 Ivy championship squad was one of the biggest surprises to win a league crown? Actually, the team settled for its second straight tie for the title, but a 16-7 victory over Yale in the 100th meeting between the two schools erased any pain that the tie caused...
...Athletically, our players are as good as any varsity athlete in terms of fitness," adds Kingston citing that several Harvard ruggers have been lettermen on other varsity sports...
...halfback Steve Flacco are gone from last season's upstarts. But seven starters return on defense, including three second-team All-Ivy selections. One of them, cornerback Timmy Chambers, picked off six passes last fall. Kevin Bradley, who led the team in stops last year, returns with seven other lettermen at linebacker...
...lightweights strong debut could very well lead to one of their more successful seasons. "Everyone in the boat is hoping for an undefeated year--we have six returning lettermen [of eight] and we're rowing better now than we were at this point last year," senior veteran Dave Moore said yesterday. Yale, Princeton and MIT figure to be strong challengers...