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...leading ground gainer and scorer with the J.V.'s last year, Kohlmann was placed on the fourth team in this summer's pre-season depth chart, behind fullbacks Pat Conway, Stan Yastrzemski, and Lloyd Macdonald...
Less impressive was Princeton, which took a 2-0 beating from pre-season favorite Brown. It was the first time this year that coach Cliff Stevenson's Bruins have played up to their potential, and they completely stifled a Princeton offense that hadn't done too much scoring all year...
Yale, which was everybody's pre-season Ivy choice, has disappointed in game after game this season. Although the Bulldogs are still unbeaten, they were held to a 9-9 tie by weak Columbia and barely managed to squeak past Cornell last week 23 to 21. Dartmouth's record is blemished by a 37-7 loss to Princeton, but the team has improved markedly since that humiliation. The Indians whipped Brown, 24 to 14, and last week looked like pros clobbering Harvard...
Both Harvard and Penn were among the pre-season league favorites, but neither has been able to score consistently and they are now floundering in fourth and sixth places, respectively...
Cornell (1-1) and Dartmouth (1-1) can't be counted out yet. The Big Red has been the surprise of the league so far, unquestionably. Consigned to the cellar in pre-season predictions, they opened up a surprisingly good offense in beating Penn 33-0 and won all the statistical departments against Harvard, though they lost the game...