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...documented inside, seemed ready to field this fall a generally sound team, with notable strength at halfback, and a strong, all-senior defense. Nevertheless, the team could not be considered a formidable contender because there were no experienced or impressive prospects at quarterback and end. Further, with only 14 lettermen back, the problem of depth, especially in the offensive line, loomed significant. In addition, Yale and Princeton, which both beat Harvard last year, were returning exceptional quality and quantity from their excellent 1967 teams, with the rest of the league rating as strong or stonger than last season...
September, the month of pre-season drills, should have improved Harvard's situation. It is now more than half over and the results have been numbing, to say the least. Three of the fourteen lettermen (John Tyson, Dan Wilson, and Will Stargel), all seniors, all vital to a successful season, are suddenly out of the picture. Four other key players--Richie Szaro, John Ignacio, Fritz Reed, and Tony Smith--will miss the entire practice campaign, and conceivably much of the regular season. Many minor injuries to inconspicuous players, routinely bother-some in previous years, take on great significance when compounded...
...second shift that should pay belated dividends has Fritz Reed, one of two junior lettermen, moving from end to tackle. Reed's adjustment to tackle, which should have been easy since he is 6'2", 225 lbs., and was rated as a better blocker than pass receiver, is set back due to a nerve injury which is affecting his left arm and will keep him out of action for an unknown period. The odds are that his recovery will be in time for Holy Cross, the openning game...
...George Lalich has at least stayed healthy, and Dave Smith has earned the number two spot among the four original candidates. The defensive front five--ends Pete Hall and Steve Ranere, tackles Steve Zebal and Lonny Kaplan,and middle guard Alex Maclean--and the linebacking with lettermen John Emery and Gerry Marino remain strong and may well be the key to any Harvard victories...
Harvard football suffered a great loss to the war in Europe. Percy Haughton '99, the winningest coach in Crimson history, left for the battle-field in 1917--taking along all of his assistant coaches, By November, all 73 varsity lettermen were gone. As a result, there were no versity football teams in '17 or '18, though Wingate Rollins '16 organized and coached an informal team...