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Their coaches blame this year's scores on the Ivy League's quarterbacks-particularly on their passing skills. Yale's Brian Dowling has 31 completions in 79 attempts for seven touchdowns in five games; Harvard's Ric Zimmerman already has eleven TD passes to his credit compared with seven all last year. Then there is a general inconsistency to contend with. Says Princeton's Coach Dick Colman: "With no spring practice and other things on their minds, our players don't have time to be letter-perfect. On any given day, anything can happen...
...victory-starved Brown supporters cheered themselves silly for Len Jardine's revitalized athletes, Harvard's occasionally dynamic duos--halfbacks Ray Hornblower and Vic Gatto, quarterback Ric Zimmerman and end Carter Lord--finally broke loose...
After a frustrating first half, coach Yovicsin started experimenting. He alternated his halfbacks and allowed quarterback Ric Zimmerman to open up the attack. Zimmerman began the second half with a pass to Carter Lord at the Crimson 38. Gatto burst eight yards for a first down at the 46, but two Zimmerman passes went awry, and punter Paul Saba got the call...
When a football game is decided by missed extra points it is often not clear which is the superior team, and Saturday's 14-12 victory over Cornell left a maximum number of "its" floating around. Crimson quarterback Ric Zimmerman is not the only one who thinks Harvard might have busted the game wide open if it had scored a touchdown in the second period, as it came within two yards of doing. For Ithacans, the "might-have-beens" start with the two missed extra points and then dwell on a bad break which upset Cornell's three fourth-down...
This line combination is fast enough to lead Vie Gatto around end, strong enough to enable Ric Zimmerman to sneak for five or ten yards when the defense gears for Gatto, and uniformly solid enough to protect a passer (Zimmerman has been harrassed only thrice thus far). And what makes Feula happy is the depth behind his starters: it is much stronger than in previous years...