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Junior halfbacks John Damis and John Shipman have quit the varsity football team. Their defection came suddenly yesterday, and deprived coach John Yovicsin of valuable halfback insurance for this season and the future...
...Yovicsin was not available for comment...
THACA, N.Y.--The varsity foot-team's goal line phobia struck again at Cornell's Schoellkopf Field, rugged Big Red squad, outplayed for almost three periods, rallied to John Yovicsin's Crimson, 12 to 0. times the Crimson drove inside Cornell 40-yard line, once to a first on the 1, but could never put the across. The Big Red, on the other , grabbed its first big opportunity Brown's interception of a Terry pass) and promptly moved 24 in eight plays for a touchdown 0:52 of the third quarter. With Harvard resistance fading, Cornell added insurance score...
Still, as coach John Yovicsin said later, "We would be lucky to beat them if we were at our best." Massachusetts blocked, tackled, and ran for keeps...
However, neither Yovicsin nor anybody else around Cambridge is about to admit that any team can prepare for the little gambling quarterback. Against the Crusaders, Ravenel completed eight passes out of 18 attempts for 90 yards and a touchdown, but his real talent was in directing the Crimson's running attack to a total of 262 yards...