Word: rogan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carm. no need to be modest. Everybody knows you've got all your big defensive guns back, primed and ready to go. Also back is tailback Rich Diana, only the third Yale runner ever to gain more than 1000 yards in a season. Just as importantly, senior quarterback John Rogan and a crop of talented receivers are back, promising to make Cozza's multiple-I formation a potent threat. Rogan will be looking for favorite receiver Curtis Grieve; that combination, as Harvard fans will painfully remember, buried the Crimson last November. All these potential offensive fireworks depend on Cozza...
...defensive seconders as one possible area of concern where "Pat Conrad is the only good, experienced man returning." Overall, the weaknesses seem to be few and far between, although as Cozza points out, "We're one-deep, like most teams in the league." An injury to Diana or Rogan could prove difficult to adjust to, as could a failure of the inexperienced offensive line and defensive secondary. Besides Harvard, which the Crimson Sports Cube picks to finish a relatively close second for the year, the Ivy elite for 1981 should include--in no certain order-- Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown...
...usual, the secondary sparkled, limiting Rogan to 81 yds. in the air and collecting a startling 39 tackles among them. Coppinger, ABC's defensive player of the game, tied classmate Rock Delgadillo, the Ivy interception leader, for the game lead with ten tackles apiece. Look for those two to lead the league's best secondary...
...INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Rushing Player (School) Att. Yds. Avg. LG Rich Diana (Y) 27 79 2.9 20 Nitti (Y 19 69 3.6 12 Brian Buckley (H) 6 -45 -- -- -- Jim Callinan (H) 9 30 3.3 10 Dan Stratton (Y) 4 27 6.8 9 Rogan (Y) 12 20 1.7 12 Tom Beatrice (H) 3 2 1.7 4 Paul Connors...
...INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Passing Com. Att. Yds. TD Int Buckley (H) 33 14 141 0 2 Rogan (Y) 8 5 81 1 0 Stratton (Y) 1 0 0 0 0 Phil Manley...