Word: starter
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Rounding out the starting nine are lettermen Jaime Gonzales and Pete Abrams. Barnaby always considers an 11- man team, and sophomores Reggie Foster and Allen Quasha are ready and waiting to challenge any lagging starter...
...there was reason for Yale's concern for most of the fourth quarter. Roda, sent in to replace sophomore starter Rex Blankenship, began throwing completions into the shaky Yale secondary, and had it not been for the defensive end Jim Gallagher and a few linemates. Harvard could easily have tied and perhaps have won the 86th game of the series...
...today, Blankenship, from Spiro, Oklahoma, will start at quarterback for the Harvard varsity against Yale at New Haven. He will be the fifth starter that coach John Yovicsin has used at that position this fall, and it clearly shows what kind of a season it has been for Harvard...
Spengler, one of the top performers early in the season, has been sidelined for three weeks with a hip injury but was considered a likely starter in the IC4A's until a few days ago. Now he definitely will not run. "It would have been a gamble to use Tom, but it would've been one I'd have been willing to take," coach Bill McCurdy said Wednesday...
...wreckage. Happily, it was a false alarm. The 67-year-old Lindbergh, who now devotes his life to the cause of conservation, had simply set his single-engine plane down in a dry rice paddy to avoid a tropical squall. Then his battery went dead, cutting out the engine starter; finally he hitched a ride with a passing motorist to get his battery recharged, and after four hours he took off again on his inspection tour of wildlife and primitive tribes in the area. Said Lindy, when he finally arrived at his destination: "I can still fly a plane...