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Something approaching a smile barely managed to crease John Yovicsin's face last night as he herded his valiant but bandaged band of football players into Dillon Field House after practice...
Weather Unpredictable, Turf Generally Good--First Game Sept. 29 Placed Team Coach LL LB Comments Odds 3 Princeton (Colman) 11 21 Backfield makes favorite here 5-2 3 Dartmouth (Blackman) 14 14 Led by King, could go distance 3-1 1 Harvard (Yovicsin) 19 14 If line jells, might challenge 7-2 5 Yale (Olivar) 12 19 Look for big improvement here 8-1 1 Columbia (Donelli) 19 6 Too weak to repeat last season 10-1 6 Cornell (Harp) 14 20 If Wood gets help, might surprise 10-1 7 Penn (Stiegman) 12 21 Lost to better teams last...
...varsity coach John Yovicsin discovered a slick sophomore quarterback named Ravenel, the freshman class proved its athletic prowess early with a 6-1 football team, led by the quarterbacking of diminutive Grady Watts. TDs by John Damis, Gil Bamford, Roy Williams, and Deve Ward brought a big 25-0 win over Tufts in the opener...
...Yovicsin himself saw little future for the sport as a football substitute in the Ivies, as "we're on the way up now and getting better every year. The trend is back to football," he indicated...
Baaron B. Pittenger, Director of Sports Information, doubted Harvard would field an elephant varsity, and felt "the ponderous pachyderms" of Coach John Yovicsin's football line were the biggest things Harvard could muster...