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...Columbia collapse is difficult to explain, but the most likely reason is that the team has thus far failed to work itself into shape. Harvard Coach Bob Pickett said yesterday the Lions are "ready to explode," especially if they've finally gotten in some kind of condition...
Coach Bob Pickett will start his usual lineup, with Howie Henjvoji at 123, Bing Sung at 130, captain Tom Gilmore at 137, Howie Durfee at 145, Franquemont at 152, Paul Padlak at 160, Chris Wickens at 167, Jeff Grant at 177, Bill Malugen at 191, and Chace at heavyweight...
...match that will make the season, this year as always, will be Cornell. The Big Red wins Ivy League championships with numbing regularity, and Pickett, head coach since 1950, has never beaten them. Harvard's particular albatross is to have to wrestle Cornell immediately after Christmas vacation without the steadying influence of a match or two against some of the League's pushovers...
...Pickett picked Columbia as the team's most serious league rival after Cornell, and predicted that Princeton, blessed with a good crop of sophomores, will be considerably improved over last year's sixth place finish. Penn, Yale, and Brown will fight for the crumbs...
...rest of the season, Pickett has learned, through long experience, not to let himself seem too hopeful. "Cornell still has the edge no matter how you look at it. But if we can just, by chance, knock them...