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...from the defensive front line. Center fullback Kurt Swanback and outside fullback Steve Cafiano have gone as has back Adam Suttner, who dropped out of school. To make up for these losses, Columbia plans to make some eye-opening changes. These position switches reflect the Lion's depth at midfield, as well as the fundamental soccer skills of Columbia's front-line players...
...instance Greg Varney--a manistay of the Columbia offense with 11 goals last year form his center forward slot--will shift all the way back to stopper. Similarly, Barry Nix, last season's Player of the Year at sweeper, will move to the midfield, and starter Steve Pratton will migrate up front from his halfback role. Offensively, Ivy Rookie of the Year Steve Sirtis is back up front, but the coaching staff is counting on a couple of freshmen to replace Ali and Varney. Jamaican Soloman Gale and New York State High School high scorer Frank Ozello will...
...help of several key performers. Losses on defense will put the Big Red in a position similar to that of Columbia, and will force coach Jack Riter to make a few changes in his line up. Most of the changes will come out of an overloaded, very talented midfield, where Riter has nine returning lettermen...
Goals should be no problem for the Big Red, with honorable mention, all-Ivy netminder David Weed returning for another season. Weed allowed just 1.08 goals per game last year. Since all three of his top scorers roamed the midfield last season, the departure of three starting forwards does not worry Riter, who plans to switch to a 4-4-2 allignment for the upcoming campaign. Crimson coach George Ford--whose charges dumped Cornell last season--experimented with the 4-4-2 allignment throughout last autumn, but has since largely abandoned it in favor...
Among Dartmouth, Brown, and Yale--all eminently capable of beating any other Ivy team in the league--the stress definitely is on defense, goaltending, and in some cases the midfield. Each of these teams will share the common Ivy malady of failure to score. Dartmouth returns 17 lettermen, including second-team All-Ivy goalie Andy Krahling, who last fall recorded six shutouts and was spectacular as the Big Green upset Harvard, 2-1, in the New Hampshire rain. Coach Tom Griffith will depend heavily on other returning defensive and midfield standouts, including second-team All-Ivy fullback...