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This bounty of experience made the Bulldogs the heavy favorite in the preseason poll, taking 14 of 16 first-place votes. Yale also benefits from the bevy of questions that accompany its closest rivals. Harvard must replace the leading rusher and scorer in Ivy history, Princeton must find a substitute for the 2006 Player of the Year, and Penn loses the bulk of its excellent offensive line while also instituting a new offensive system...
...offense is in desperate need of an overhaul after scoring just 14.7 points per game and ranking last or next to last in the Ivies in every major statistical category last year. Senior Tom Bennewitz has taken over starting quarterback duties after the departure of leading passer and rusher Mike Fritz. Two All-Ivy cornerbacks return in Chris Blanco and John Manning from a unit ranked fourth in pass defense last year, and nine starters return from the league’s worst scoring defense...
...even though the Crimson will be without the league’s all-time leading rusher for the first time since 2002, tomorrow afternoon’s game against Holy Cross (0-1) at 1 p.m. at Fitton Field in Worcester, Mass., seems a lot like years past...
...recruited players to have accepted offers of admission to the College in the class of 2011, joining a Crimson squad that will graduate some of its most accomplished athletes in the team’s history. Most notable of those are all-time Ivy League rusher Clifton Dawson and defensive tackle Mike Berg. But with freshman Cheng Ho tabbed to replace Dawson and a slew of returning talent on the defensive line, Harvard’s most notable recruits come on other areas of the field...
...also speculated that Farbotko has a shot after impressing scouts on Harvard’s pro day in March, but if anything, the senior is likely to become a free agent in some team’s camp.CLIF HANGERAfter becoming the Ivy League’s all-time leading rusher last fall with 3,628 career yards and despite setting every major career and single-season record Harvard keeps, arguably the best back in the history of the league is all but a shoe-in.Although he worked hard in the off-season and took time off from school to train, Dawson...