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After a long September of pre-season preparation, the members of America's oldest football fraternity venture out of the safety of their practice fields. Today will be the first chance to evaluate the work of the coaches and start seeing how much of the pre-season speculation was valid...
Over at 50 Boylston St. yesterday, soccer coach J. Bruce Munro wasn't handing out the usual pre-season optimism. Last year his players were Ivy champions. This year he's predicting a tough struggle in which any of three teams could come out ahead of the Crimson...
Harvard was picked to finish weventh in the Ivy League by most pre-season experts last fall, but an upset victory over Dartmouth and a surprising 9-7 win over Princeton--a win gained by dint of a touchdown made with less than five minutes left in the game--boosted the Crimson to a tie for second place (with the Tigers) behind an awesomely powerful (by Ivy standards) Columbia eleven. Harvard, moreover, had an outside chance to move up into a tie for first. To do this, the Crimson would have to defeat both Brown and Yale...
...week and decided just how the major-league pennant races might wind up. The big surprise was that the Nevada smart money picked the Cincinnati Reds for fifth place in the National League, one of the most embarrassing ratings ever given a previous year's pennant winner. The pre-season odds...
...Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of pre-season summaries of the outlook for Crimson spring sports teams...