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Fourteen lettermen--ten linemen and four backs--return with 71 other candidates for pre-season drills beginning Sept. 1. Because there is no spring football in the Ivy League, the Crimson will have its first chance to practice and approach solutions to its many problems since the Yale game last year. A lot--too much--must be done in a few short weeks for the first game with Lehigh on Sept...
...truth of the matter is that things don't look so good for the Crimson this fall. Pre-season expectations do not run any higher than those submitted by the Ivy League's eight coaches and sports information directors, who picked Harvard to finish fourth and seventh, respectively. Those polls were taken last spring, when it was known that the great sophomore quarterback first-string passing ace--Terry Bartolet--had withdrawn from school for a year...
...surprise, then, that Harvard pre-season publicity says meekly that the team will "face its biggest building season since 1957," when head coach John Yovicsin first took over the reins. Yovicsin has problems, but of course he has hope. Recently he said that "We think we can be in every game we play, and if we are we'll win our share of games...
Second division teams with Harvard are expected to be Penn, in its second year of single wing; Princeton, also in a year of reconstruction and for one of the first times not at the top in pre-season choices; and of course Brown, "coming back...
Army is one of the league's top teams, having lost to the New York Yankees only, 18-0, in a pre-season exhibition game. Brown has failed to win a league game, and is in last place with a 0-3 record...