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...rest of the Ivy schedule today involves two important games and one critical matchup, Yale vs. Brown at Providence. Princeton meets Cornell in Ithaca, and the Big Green of Dartmouth travel to Philadelphia to take on the Penn Quakers in a battle of relatively unknown quantities...
...things will be similar in Ithaca, where the upstart Princeton Tigers face Cornell in another tough matchup. The Tigers have a lot going for them, including a solid defense (probably the best in the Ivies, including Brown) and last, week's Ivy Player of the Week, quarterback Ron Beible hit 14 of 25 pass attempts for 183 yards against Columbia, and the Lion defense really isn't that bad this year...
Football games between Harvard and Boston University are beginning to get a nasty reputation around town these days. As in recent years, fans who witnessed Saturday's matchup needed some No-Doz and a packet of Alka Seltzer to survive the game at Soldier's Field which saw Harvard lose...
...matchup today, then, will not be the Crimson's defensive line versus Holy Cross's protection, although the development of the pass rush is a big area of concern to Restic. Instead, the telling sign will be the success of the offense in opening the Crusader's ranks...
...second day in a row, rain washed out the crucial matchup between the Sox and the New York Yankees, draining away virtually all hope the Baltimore Orioles had of catching the Fenway front-runners. By virtue of the two day long cloudburst, the Red Sox evaded a confrontation with 22 game winner Catfish Hunter, who will now move on with his Yankee teammates to face the Orioles tomorrow night...