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...particularly enjoyable diversion to watch Harvard's football team play last year-unless you attended one of the six colleges that sent the Crimson down to its worst season since 1957. Generally considered to be the team to beat in the Ivy League with a flock of lettermen back from an undefeated squad, the Crimson stumbled through a night-Mariah Fall, absorbing a 41-24 whipping from mediocre Cornell, losing to Dartmouth, Princeton, and Yale and almost anyone else who could figure out a way to stop the Crimson's routine offensive system and pick apart its defense...
...offensive line is the problem, however. Harvard was cleaned out from tackle to tackle by graduation, and has only two lettermen, John Ferullo and Tom Waldstein, with whom to fill the holes. Eric Honick, Paul Masaracchio, Arn Rossi, and sophomore Bill Jahsman will man the top two strings at tackle, but none have any real varsity experience. Junior Frank Veteran, who played on the JV squad last year, may team with Ferullo at guard, but behind them, there is precious little depth. Waldstein, a junior, will start at center, with Skip Starck as backup...
...encouraging thing about this season is that it will be an improvement, as opposed to the attitude with which Harvard was forced to approach the dismal 1969 season after the magic of 1968; there was simply nowhere to go but down, despite all the returning lettermen...
...encouraging thing about this season is that it will be an improvement, as opposed to the attitude with which Harvard was forced to approach the dismal 1969 season after the magic of 1968; there was simply nowhere to go but down, despite all the returning lettermen...
Johnson. a two-year lettermen, was a consistent winner inthe 120-yard high hurdles and the 440 intermediate hurdles this spring as the track team rolled to its second consecutive undefeated season. He also triple jumped and ran the second leg of the mile relay. Middle distance runner Erik Roth won the award for most improvement...