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...Plummer has been sporadic at best. Against Brown, he was ineffective in the first quarter as the Tigers fell behind, 7-0. Then Tiger coach Jake McCandless replaced Plummer with sophomore Tim Testerman, and Testerman responded by hitting six-of-eleven passes for 78 yards...
...McCandless announced early this week that he would go with Plummer at quarterback, but he didn't say how far. "We need to attain a necessary balance in our attack if we hope to continue winning." he said...
Apparently McCandless feels that Plummer has brought the Tigers this far-they are 5-1, but have yet to play Yale-and that Plummer deserves another chance...
Montgomery has no reservations about the coaching. "Jake [McCandless, Princeton's head coach] is a great guy. I talk to him about Hemingway's latest novel as much as I do about the halfback option. Why, I can even talk to Jake about my love life...
Harvard has yet to beat itself this season, unless one can call an impotent offense self-defeating. And the Crimson was never overmatched with regard to raw talent. Yovicsin attracts as good players to Cambridge as any other coach in the Ivy League, including McCandless at Princeton and Blackman at Dartmouth, and if Harvard has been humiliated this fall, the fault lies with Yovicsin's system...