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September, the month of pre-season drills, should have improved Harvard's situation. It is now more than half over and the results have been numbing, to say the least. Three of the fourteen lettermen (John Tyson, Dan Wilson, and Will Stargel), all seniors, all vital to a successful season, are suddenly out of the picture. Four other key players--Richie Szaro, John Ignacio, Fritz Reed, and Tony Smith--will miss the entire practice campaign, and conceivably much of the regular season. Many minor injuries to inconspicuous players, routinely bother-some in previous years, take on great significance when compounded...
...Polish immigrant and erstwhile soccer player, according to Yovicsin, has a great deal still to learn about the game, and will be badly handicapped by missing the September drills. Harvard fans will not forget, however, that Bobby Leo '66, as a highly touted sophomore, also missed the whole pre-season and then most of the regular campaign because of an injury, finally getting into the lineup in the seventh game, and eventually scoring the winning touchdown in an 18-14 victory over Yale...
...N.F.L. PRE-SEASON GAME (CBS, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion). The Chicago Bears and World Champion Green Bay Packers limber up for the coming pro football season. From Milwaukee...
...needed four operations to correct what trainer Jack Fadden termed "one of the worst breaks I've ever seen." The surgery weakened his leg, however, and as a result, he suffered an ulceration in pre-season practice as a sophomore. He was forced to sit out the season...
Harvard is up for the game. A pre-season, dark horse candidate for the Ivy championship this year, the squad has been virtually eliminated from the race by last week's losses...