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Last year, pre-season predictions put the Cornell football team near the very top of the Ivy League. Experts saw a strong line and a swift backfield carrying the Big Red to a successful season, perhaps even to the championship...
...backfield, Don Gerety is making a strong bid for the halfback position opposite Chet Boulris. Although Bill Crowley was expected to contribute heavily to the backfield, he has still failed to come up to pre-season hopes...
This varsity team is definitely a stronger squad than had been supposed in many pre-season predictions. Most observers figured that the Crimson would have a very powerful first singles position and little else. They did not forsee the amazing play of Steve Gottlieb at second singles or the emergence of Larry Sears as a formidable number three...
Only the greatest stroke of luck imaginable could bring the Crimson even a 5-4 win, and it will take some pretty good play just to prevent a serious rout. Pre-season "figuring" had placed Yale slightly above Harvard in league standing, and Presbyterian defeated the Elis, 8 to 1, yesterday with very little difficulty...
Earlier in the season, the Clinton, S.C. team disposed of Princeton, also rated above the Crimson in pre-season rankings, by a handy 6-3 count...