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Possibly the best modern Yale team ever to take the field humiliated the varsity, 42 to 14 in 1956. The Bulldogs became Ivy champions, and that season scored 40 points against Penn, 42 against Princeton, and 42 aginst Harvard in their last three games. The unstoppable backfield of Dean Loucks, Dennis McGill, Al Ward, and Steve Ackerman ran wild over a Crimson defense that did well to hold the final count below...
Fourteen enthusiastic House teams, including the champions of soccer, touch and tackle football will face their Yale counterparts this afternoon in the traditional per-Yale football game contests. J.V. and freshman football, and freshman soccer squads will also descend on New Haven today for their final games of the season...
...Dunster football champions, who play Davenport College, the Yale champs, at 2:30 p.m., have rolled up an undefeated season. In the past three years, the Funsters have never lost, and have tied only twice. But in both Yale contests, they were unable to equal their home play, losing 14 to 7 in 1957 and 22 to 0 last year...
...Ciardi had misgivings about the ability of commercial old lowbrow America to recognize true Greatness overnight. "J.B., it must be added, is strong stuff," he warned. "Too strong, one knows, for Broadway success this season or next." But eventually all would be well, he concluded: "And yet Broadway will come to it in time, because it must, because great imagination and great talent cannot be denied forever. Meanwhile, Yale is preparing it for production, and certainly the summer theatres and the college groups throughout the country will have found a new star forever. For J.B. adds a dimension...
John Yovicsin's eleven should relish the role of the underdog. Its two biggest wins of the season were over favored opponents, and its two worst showings were in games in which it was a clear favorite...