Word: pre-season
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...injury to Rod Foster. Restic finally convinced Foster to give up his quarterback career (with the persuasive arguments of Jim Stoeckel and Fric Crone on his side) and use his considerable running talent as a fullback. But Foster is nursing an injured ankle, and he has missed the pre-season practice he needed to master his new position. If Foster isn't ready in time, Restic will have to rely on the shaky ankles and ailing back of Steve Hall a good blocking fullback who saw more time in the last year, or two lesser knowns JV veteran Marc Mayberg...
Yale is the most uncertain commodity in the League. Although the Elis finished last season with a dismal 4-5 record, they have a lot of enormous linemen returning from injuries have come back to plague them in pre-season. Yale has switched to the wishbone, releasing Dick Jauron from his fullback duties and perhaps giving him another opportunity to run amuck through the League, as he did as a sophomore halfback...
...active participation. There are rumored to be internal problems between Harrison and some of his players, although none of these have been documented. Nevertheless, there is unquestionably some skeleton in the closet in the basketball program as each of the last two years' teams has fallen short of pre-season expectations...
...Crimson lightweights open the defense of their Eastern and Ivy League rowing titles today, facing Columbia and Rutgers in New York. The Harvard eight, coming off a rigorous pre-season training schedule, is built around a solid core of veteran oarsmen...
...pressure started to build up in pre-season. Even though Harrison wasn't allowed to be on the floor before official practices started, he always seemed to find a reason to walk across the gym floor. The team held 'voluntary workouts' during this period but Harrison marked down who didn't show up and held it against that person later...