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That's what the men from New York present as they go after their first victory over Harvard since 1956 (Yovicsin has never lost to Donelli) and a 3-1 Ivy record. (The Lions trounced Brown in the opener, 50-0, and got upset by Princeton in the second game...
Sharing the quarterback duties for Harvard will be sophomores Bill Humenuk and Mike Bassett. In general, Humenuk is the passer, and Bassett is the runner, and although Bassett will start today, "The one who moves us best will play most of the game," Yovicsin says. Bill Grana will start at fullback, and Tom Boone will share the halfback attack with Chuck Reed, who missed last week's game because of a leg injury...
...this Saturday it will be a matter of picking Columbia and hoping that Harvard will pull a Cornell-kind of upset or something. This is plausible, of course, for it's another Ivy league game. After the upset-loss to Colgate Saturday, Harvard coach John Yovicsin came up with a peculiar though valid conclusion about the highly erratic affairs of the Ivy teams...
...right, second-team quarterback Mike Bassett (23) hands off to halfback Bill Taylor (12). Other Crimson players identifiable are fullback Fred Bartl (30) and guard Ernie Zissis (69). Taylor was a pleasant surprise for coach John Yovicsin. Hurt early in September, he was not expected to play this fall. But he excelled Saturday, in his third day of contact work...
Thus ended a ridiculous contest that can be argued for Lehigh only because Harvard lost six out of its seven fumbles and got sloppy when ahead. As Yovicsin said, "We did a lot of things, but we didn't do the thing we had to do--win." And as the memories of the game grow older, all that is important is the final score...