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Cornell's Ken Dryden was unbeatable in the ECAC finals, and he managed to blank Harvard's explosive line. Surprisingly, the second line of Jack Turco, Chip Otness, and Dwight Ware--the team's lowest scoring regular forwards--picked up the slack by teaming for Harvard's two scores. This line does not have the stickhandling finesse of the other two trios, but its scrappy forechecking style may upset Denver's powerful offense...
Where? Officer Candidate Schools could be expanded to take up the slack; in its present form, though, OCS is basically a cram course, and the graduates show it. Only the Marine Corps, which shuns ROTC, is currently satisfied with turning collegians into officers solely at OCS bases and summer camps. For other branches, the service academies would have to be enlarged enormously. West Point, for example, will turn out only 750 second lieutenants this year, v. the 17,000 second lieutenants who will graduate from Army ROTC...
Against M.I.T. Harvard showed some weaknesses. Theodore dropped two bouts and Winfield lost once. The slack did not hurt, however, as Cetrulo and Keller swept their bouts and Tetrayllay put in a surprising two-win performance...
...absence of Joel Kramer, Scott Jacobs, and Leo Lennon weakened the CRIMSON forces, according to Lennon and Jacobs, but Mike Barrett and Bill Bryson took up the slack. Both Barrett and Bryson ran for touchdowns, and the speedy Bryson was superlative in the defensive secondary...
...There's not much we can do," he said. "We don't have a counterplan to take up the slack. All Harvard can do is to express its dismay at this decision...