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...Restic's rookie year, however, his ball club had jelled, and with the aid of such Restic trickery as a quarterback-in-motion play, the Crimson stepped on Yale, 35-16. Last Wednesday, after two weeks of preseason practice Restic leaned forward in his chair flashed his salesman's smile and chortled. The systems in. If Restics players really can understand and execute the complexities of his fat play book. Harvard will be hot this year On paper at least the Crimson has the talent to a serious contender for the Ivy League title...
...good play-action short passer, while Crone is a drop back passer with a rifle arm well suited to the long bomb. Milt Holt, who threw seven touchdown passes while sharing the quarterback duties on last year's freshman team, has also drawn Restic's praise during preseason practice. And senior Frank Guerra, a frustrated veteran of three seasons on the bench (and one who may have the best understanding of the Restic system) has not been counted out of the quarterback race...
Navy was a preseason favorite for the EILB title, but so far this season it has a 3-3 record, and is tied for fourth place with Columbia. The Midshipmen's greatest strength is at two, three and four in their batting order, but Steve Ogden and George Voelker both bat lefthanded, and they should have a tough time against Brayton. Bruce Aukland bats third in the lineup, and last year he hit a home run to beat the Crimson...
...Preseason estimations predicted that the Crimson team would be undefeated at this stage of the season, but Harvard has surprised most squash spectators with the strength of its top players. Juniors Andy Weigand and Dan Gordon have dropped only one match between them at numbers two and three this winter...
...Lakers rolled to their 23rd consecutive win at week's end, there was even talk that they could go all the way against Kareem Jabbar (formerly Lew Alcindor) and the vaunted Milwaukee Bucks, the overwhelming preseason favorites to win their second straight N.B.A. title. If conditioning alone determined the winner, the Lakers would be shoo-ins. Last week, when Laker Owner Jack Kent Cooke jubilantly broke out the champagne to celebrate the team's record-breaking victory, most of the players drank their toasts in Gatorade...