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Tonight at 7:30 in the IAB, in the Crimson's first game of 1981, a highly touted team from Villanova will do its best to turn that resolution sour. Not that a loss to the Wildcats would kill Harvard's season completely--the Crimson still has only one Ivy League loss--but as Boutilier said, "winning this one would be a great way to start the new year...
...NOTEBOOK: The hoopsters have a doubleheader this weekend. Friday night the squad takes on Villanova, ranked 17th nationally and featuring a 6'4" center. Saturday the pressure eases somewhat as the hoopsters confront Williams, a less than awesome division II contender...
...Durgin, well, he doesn't mind the anonymity. The St. John high schooler from Lynn received feelers from Penn State, Pitt and Syracuse, but chose to play in the oft-derogated Ivies. "I have no regrets," says the son of a Villanova grid star. "The Ivy League is way ahead of the game. Even if I had never played a down of football, I would be happy here...
...Villanova 34 Pennsylvania...
Penn, however, has also undergone a resurrection of sorts, and should prove tough in Philadelphia. The Quakers held Yale to eight points in miserable weather, gave the high-flying Tigers heart palpitations ten days ago, and played respectably Saturday against a Villanova squad that toppled Boston College earlier this fall. Penn runs a wish-bone offense that has not run smoothly in the past, but which is better executed on each successive weekend...