Word: quarterback
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Frank Champi, the hero of last year's Yale game and the number one quarterback for the Crimson this fall, has quit the team. Rumors that he was considering quitting had been circulating for the past week, and Champi confirmed them last night...
Harvard's most pressing problem so far has been quarterbacking and now the Crimson is without its number one signal caller. Champi's quitting does make the problem of who's going to quarterback a bit less complicated for coach John Yovicsin, however...
Yovicsin said after Saturday's game with Boston University that he would like to play only one quarterback instead of alternating Champi and Dave Smith, but that he used both because he wasn't sure who was better. But Champi was the starter...
Smith is now the number one man. The backup will probably be Joe Roda, Rex Blankenship, or John O'Grady. Captain John Cramer said last night that Yoviesin is now taking a long look at junior varsity game films to determine who will be his second quarterback...
Smith thought that being the established first quarterback would help him psychologically. "I feel badly about Frank's quitting, but you always like to know you're number one, and it makes you try twice as hard," he said. "I seem to do a lot better in that position," he added...