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With games against physically brutal Brown and Yale yet to come, along with the first post-season playoff game sandwiched between those two, Harvard's ability to stay relatively healthy may well decide the outcome of these contests...
...both sides, Cornell, coming off a heart-breaking line to Penn, will be cut to solidify its claim to the number two spot in the Ivy League. For the Crimson a win could issue a genuine that at the Quakers for the Ivy side and a good chance for post-season play. A Crimson loss, however, could still Harvard's side drive, put all end to a cherished home field advantage and place it in the unenviable position of having to best Penn to finish any higher than third...
...follow last year's record-setting combination is a tall order to fill. The Crimson lightweights of a year ago, undefeated for the third straight year since Gladstone took the Harvard job in 1969, took both the Ivy and Eastern titles before moving on to further honors in post-season competition...
...shave, at Cornell, and about three days of solid pinball, the Crimson hosted Penn, a team which much like Harvard's has its head into a lot of different things. The Quakers, who last year won the Eastern League in the regular season and the Easterns in post-season, were hurting. Harvard caught them napping, and, with the help of a bungled Quaker relay, upset them. Typical of the kind of effort that the Crimson displayed all season was their unwillingness to give up when behind. They took three straight sweeps for the come-from-behind victory...
...championships shape up as a battle between NYU and Columbia, with a possible challenge from CCNY. NYU appears to have lost little from last year's championship team and must, once again, be considered the favorite. Columbia, a perenniel Ivy fencing power, usually fares well in post-season competition, and CCNY seems to be on the upswing this year...