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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Junior tailback Matt Botsford placed fourth in total offense with 323 yards rushed and 21 passes completed for a total of 316 yards. Columbia's Claude Benham won the championship with 999 yards gained on passing attack and minus 14 yards on rushing for a total of 935 yards...
...defense the varsity consistently penetrated the j.v. line to throw the backs for big losses. On offense, the first backfield met temporary frustration in trying to crack the strong freshman forward wall, but then Matt Botaford broke through for long gains through the middle and around the ends...
...backfield, the problem is not injuries, but picking the right man to start. At tailback, Jordan has three men of almost equal ability, none of whom has shown very much in the past three games --Matt Botsford, Jim Joslin, and Walt Stahura. Jordan has said he would start Botsford, but the other two will probably play a third of the game...
Dartmouth's Bill Beagle leads the league in individual total offense with 625 yards, followed by Columbia's Claude Benham and the varsity's Matt Botsford with 563 and 499 yards respectively. Botsford's 264 yards for 63 carries places him third in rushing. Levengood of Penn leads the punters with an average of 35.8 yards a kick, while Botsford is fifth with a 31.8 average. Yale's Al Ward tops the league in scoring with 48 points...
More positively, the Crimson has its own statistics to flaunt. While Beagle leads the Ivy League in total offense with 556 yards, Matt Botsford, who has alternated at tailback with Jim Joslin for the Crimson, and has played in only three games, has piled up 407. Even with Beagle's passing supporting the whole Indian offense, Dartmouth has averaged only 239.3 yards per game against Harvard's league-leading...