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When football training camp opened this Fall, four blacks reported to vie for positions on the squad. From this meager beginning the number of blacks in the program has dwindled. Early on, two players who figured fairly prominently in the Crimson's season plans dropped out. Just before the pre-season scrimmage with Brown, a third left the team, leaving Jiggetts as the sole black on the squad...
Though there weren't throngs of excited fans shouting "We're number one" as the Crimson team crossed the finish, the victories yesterday, combined with the trouncing of pre-season favorite Northeastern, establishes Harvard as the top team in New England. "If they don't vote us number one," Coach McCurdy said yesterday, "I'm going to start my own Watergate investigation...
Although Providence and UMass were rated three and four in the pre-season polls, below Harvard, McCurdy was expecting the two teams to be a lot stronger than the rankings indicated. Indeed, UMass proved to be better than number four, but the Friars were somewhat a disappointment. Philip Campbell, reputed to be the Irish senior cross-country champion, was not to be found in the varsity competition, but ran in the earlier J.V. race. John Savoie, another PC star, finished way back in the number sixteen position...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Harvard got its final tune-up of the football pre-season Saturday, braving unseasonably cold and blustery conditions here to edge Brown, 11-9, in a controlled scrimmage...
...surprise for the Crimson coach had to be the play of fullbacks Neil Miller and Phil Allen. Both were tough up the middle and on off-tackle plays, and each of them ripped off large chunks of yardage. Restic, who had labeled the fullback a trouble spot early in pre-season was gratified by Miller and Allen's play...