Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Graduation last year took away many of the finest hockey players in Harvard history. Bob Cleary, top scorer in the nation last winter, star defenseman Bob Owen, Lyle Guttu, John Copeland, Bob McVey--all of these left in June. Only eight lettermen remain: Harry Pratt, Tab Cleary, John Duncan, Dick Fisher, Captain Dick McLaughlin, Dave Vietze, Buddy Higginbottom, and Paul Kelley...
...main problem of the squad lies at the vital defense positions. Only Captain McLaughlin, John Duncan, and Mo Balboni have had extensive varsity experience; the graduation gap is especially evident here. "Pairings are still tentative," Weiland says, and much may change in the early weeks of the season...
...congestion of good players is heavy at quarterback. Three of the year's best are California's Joe Kapp, a vicious blocker and tackier who has completed 52 of 87 passes, run for a surprising (for a quarterback) 540 yds.; Iowa's pass-happy Randy Duncan (91 completions in 151 tries); and Notre Dame Newcomer George Izo, who was promoted to the first string only at midseason, has since completed 47 out of 77 passes for seven touchdowns. But 1958 may be best remembered as the year that topflight halfbacks sprang up all over...
...Iowa (6-0-1)-clinched the Big Ten title, a New Year's Day Rose Bowl appearance, as Randy Duncan passed for two touchdowns. Halfback Willie Fleming scooted 46 and 63 yds. to two others in a 28-6 rout of Minnesota...
Underground Work. The denominational churches, including Presbyterians, Methodists and Episcopalians, include far more anti-segregation partisans. Even so, men like Dr. William M. Elliott of the Highland Park Presbyterian Church of Dallas, who has frequently denounced segregation as morally indefensible, and Episcopal Minister Duncan Gray Jr. of St. Peter's Church at Oxford, Miss., who has spoken sturdily for racial tolerance, stand out as exceptions to the rule. Most of the pro-integration work of the Southern clergy of whatever denomination is so quiet as to be almost clandestine...