Eliot Crushes Bulldogs, 15-0, As Harvard Houses Win Four

An undefeated Eliot House football team successfully defended its perfect 6-0 season record by stifling an Eli Jonathan Edwards-Bradford squad, 15-0, as the Harvard House teams won four of the seven Harvard-Yale intramural contests held yesterday afternoon.

Senior fullback Sandy White scored both touchdowns in the Eliot-J.E./B. game, slipping across the snow-littered field and breaking tackle after tackle.

Push, Push

The Eliot defense, which has allowed only 16 points against it all year, pushed hard to contain the Yale offense, and their smash-and-holler tactics stymied the opposition's ground game.

The only Bulldog drive that approached success was nipped by a Bill Hartbach interception late in the fourth quarter.

The game was marked by hard hitting.

"People were psyched--we wanted to hurt them," Eliot halfback Mike Prater said. "I just don't think they were as prepared for it," he added.

Following a long-standing tradition, the Eliot team arrived for the game fortified by alcohol, while beer was supplied at the sidelines by the Eliot House Committee. After the game the team celebrated its victory by jumping into a huge mud puddle outside Dillon Field House, a custom initiated last year in a similar puddle at Yale.

Meanwhile, sandwiched between a field hockey warmup on one side, and a cheering mob of freshman football spectators on the other, the Quincy House squad ground out an easy victory against Yale's Saybrook-Trumbull, 16-0.

Quincy's offense got going early, as junior John Bernlohr ran for a short yardage touchdown the first time the team had possession. A Bernie McCabe pass to Bernlohr sufficed for the conversion, and the score was 8-0 Quincy as the game was just getting underway.

The second Quincy score came soon after, when junior Bob Boelck rammed up the Eli middle for a touchdown, and quarterback McCabe swept right for the conversion.

Later in the day, halfback Gary Gillis led a fired-up Kirkland team to a 12-8 win over Yale's Stillman-Timothy Dwight.

Pull, Pull

Gillis scored both Kirkland touchdowns. The first came on a sweep left on a pitchout early in the second quarter, and the other was the result of a long pass play.

Elsewhere in intramural play, second-ranked Leverett edged its Yale opponent, 6-0, while third-ranked Lowell House reciprocated with a 6-0 loss. Mather and Winthrop sustained the other two Harvard losses.