Word: rick
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Columbia's backfield won't terrify anyone this season. Roberts' successor is junior Rick Ballantine, who played as a defensive back last year. He is a fair runner; against Lafayette he carried the ball 19 times for 98 yards. Vying with Ballantine for the starting quarterback role is sophomore John Burns. He's a passer--sort of. Against Lafayette he completed two of thirteen throws...
...draftees themselves were silent -even Arizona State's "Rick" Monday, who had better cause to wail than most. The word was that Kansas City was offering him $100,000 to sign. But Rick is only 19, and his season average was .396, with nine homers and 45 RBIs in 48 games this spring. That would have been worth at least $200,000 in the good old days. However, if the draft seems too cold, there is always the Peace Corps...
...homers by Andre ("The Barber") Swettham and Annie Buxton. The Good Guys came right back on a single and a walk driven in by a long double from the redoubtable stick of Tiger Dan Donovan. Then all three pitchers (the CRIMSON unveiled its deadly platoon system, alternating between southpaw Rick Hertzberg and northpaw Jake Brackman) settled down to business...
West Pointer Jim Warner, a flop in the mile indoors, is expected to avenge his loss at Ithaca to Eli Rick Wilmer. Harvard's Jim Smith scored a fine second place in the winter championships but will be hard pressed to repeat that performance tomorrow afternoon...
Walt Hewlett will make his spring debut in the two-mile, and, though his erratic tendencies have made him a legend in his own time, his performance today against capable Rick Wilmer should give some hint of what to expect next week...