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'56 Trackmen Shoot for Undefeated Season

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When Eliot House's powerful football team beat Leverett 19 to 0 for the House championship last week, John H. Finley, Jr., usually mild mannered lecturer in Humanities 2, and Charley Dey, former Dartmouth football star, became the-most successful athletic director and coach in Harvard history.

Finley, whose high powered admissions system at Eliot is still unchallenged by NCAA sanity officials, supplied the talent, Dey the know how; the undefeated and untied Elephants coasted to seven straight victories, stingily kept all opponents scoreless, and thereby set a new House and College record.

High Scoring

High scorer on the team, which averaged three scores a game, was Fred Rhinelander, who ran for five touchdowns and passed for two others. Bill Gray, Steve Kurzman, and Ed White scored three apiece, John MacNamara and Hank Greenburg each made two, and Forrest Bramble made one. Other teams in the league can find solace in the fact that all these men are seniors.

All except MacNamara have played for the team during the last three seasons. He spent last year on the varsity, but played with the Elephants in 1950, when they also won the House championship.

The starting line averages over 200 pounds. Bob Cohen, the center, is flanked at the guards by Walt Cabot, the only starting sophomore, and Luke Lockwood. Lockwood goes both ways and is the key man in the team's defense; after playing all the first half of every game, he has a cigarette or two and goes on to play the whole second half.

The team has two sets of twins, Ed and Sumner White, and Steve and Rick Rosenfeld. The two Whites and Bill Gray play both defensive and offensive ends and Rick sees action as a defensive end. Steve is a defensive halfback.

Rhinelander has started for the team since 1950, and has picked up more yards on the ground than anyone else on the team. He and Lockwood share the team's kicking.

Eliot will be a heavy favorite when it plays the leading Yale college team Friday. It may well be the bright spot in an otherwise glum weekend.

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