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...feet away from the folksingers, a fine arts major sprawled out with a sheet of graph paper and his copy of introduction to Solid State Physics, and in the background a group of Eliot House jocks warmed up with a pigskin--in violation of Ivy League regulations--in preparation for next fall's defense of the House football title...
When Jordan Olivar suddenly resigned as Yale's head football coach last January, New Haven just as suddenly lost the services of its most successful pigskin mentor in modern history with no replacement in sight. Yesterday afternoon, a Yalie screening committee picked a virtual unknown, John Pont, from more than 100 applicants to succeed Olivar and lead the Bulldogs for the next three years...
Pont has been described as a dynamic and fierce competitor and is said to favor an open T-formation style of play. The 34-year-old coach became Miami's football mentor in 1956 just four years after completing his own college pigskin career...
...mileage, Tennessee's University of the South at Sewanee is not far from Athens, Ga., but in spirit it is right next door to Athens, Greece. Sewanee's burly boys chase not the pagan pigskin but good marks in Classics 206-"a study of Greek athletics." Purpose: to learn the arts of ancient boxing, running, wrestling, the discus, the shot and the javelin, plus "the Greek concept of athletics and its place in Greek education...
With a minute and a half showing, Cornell held the ball at third down on their own 31. The score was 14-12. Quarterback Gary Wood took the snap faded back to pass. A Crimson lineman hit him, but as Wood was falling leaved the pigskin to his halfback Lampkins who tore downfield for yards...