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The main interest in today's slate of Ivy League games is the three-way battle for the All-Ivy quarterback selection. Dartmouth clinched a tie for the team championship last week, and is almost a certainty to finish the job in the near future.
Dartmouth could earn sole possession of the cherished Ivy Cup today by beating Cornell. Most of the fans at Ithaca will probably be more absorbed with the battle of quarterbacks, however. All season long Dartmouth's Bill King and the Big Red's Gary Wood have been pointing for this game. Which might decide the question of individual superiority.
Wood sees Offense Mark
Warming up last week against Brown. Wood raised his season total offense figure to 1,012 yards, a new League record. King was only mildly exercised at Hanover, where he efficiently disposed of Columbia and Archie Roberts, 42-0. The effort resulted in King's fourth Ivy Back of the Week selection.
The big trouble with today's game is that it will probably prove nothing except that Dartmouth is a much better team than Cornell, with or without King. In fact, they should be two touchdowns better.
Dartmouth, however, has been riding awfully high for as Ivy seem, and may be due for a fall. If they are to be tripped this season, today seems the best bet. Concept Dartmouth to win, but a Cornell upset may be in the making.
Princeton's once mighty Tigers de battle in the Bowl today in an effort to salvage chances for a second place tie with Harvard. The Tigers have a strong interest in winning this game, as it may be their last victory of the season. They end their schedule in Hanover, and the finish could prove bleak.
yale, which was humiliated by Pennsylvania in New Haven last week would sorely like to win for much the same reasons. The Bulldogs have precious little chance of winning their final game.
Despite the impression they created last Saturday, I still think the Tigers are a reasonably good team, and certainly good enough to trim Yale, by around two touchdowns.
Pennsyivanis may have all sort of pretentions to grandour after their exciting New Haven trip, but those delusions should end by 5 p.m. today. Columbia will be in Philadelphia, and the Lions rate a 2 point edge. Archie Roberts, the ideal of every American boy, wasn't quite up to Dartmouth (although he did not a League season record for pass completions); Penn is much more his type of victim.
This brings as back to Cambridge, where Harvard is meeting Brown. In say normal setting this game should be a Crimson romp. Brown has nothing but Jim Dunda at quarterback, Jan Moyer at halfback, and a little weight in the line.
But the Bruins have terrorised many cocky clubs this season, and the only game that really counts down in Providence is the Harvard one. No matter how lousy Brown is, it always manages to make a respectable showing in the Stadium. The game should be no snap, but I take the resurgent Crimson by a touchdown and hope for more
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