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Another Penn clash casualty was halfback Scott Harshbarger, who reinjured a knee that was banged up in the Lehigh game. Harshbarger will miss practices this week, and his status for Saturday is questionable...
Harvard looked good against Dartmouth last week, even in defeat. Right inside John Throndike had several good boots, as did wing Eb Klufio and halfback Emmanuel Boye. Penn will be tough, said the coach, but he's optimistic...
...league-leading Dartmouth, 24-6, at Harvard Stadium. Indian defense, which had not yielded a point in their first four games, stopped the Crimson defense on several drives which seemed to be heading for touchdown. The lone Harvard score came on an 82-yard pass from Mike Bassett to halfback Bill Taylor, Dartmouth's quarterback Bill King led the Indian offense, scoring two touchdowns himself...
...fife to football. "My mother made my brother Mike a football outfit," he says. "She made me a band uniform." But Tommy turned out for football in the seventh grade, became a quarterback largely by the process of elimination: "I wasn't fast enough to be a halfback, and I wasn't big enough to be a lineman." At first, he threw his passes sidearm-which mattered little, because Troy High never passed anyway: the star of the team was a 200-lb. fullback named Bob Ferguson who went on to Ohio State and All-America honors. Ferguson...
Parseghian put Tommy on a bodybuilding regimen of weight lifting, soon learned that there never was anything wrong with his passing arm. Last year's first-string quarterback, Tom O'Grady, stalked off the team in disgust, returned meekly, and was shifted to reserve halfback (where he has caught one pass for 9 yds.). In Northwestern's first five games, Myers hit on 72 of 108 passes for 979 yds., ten touchdowns and a phenomenal .667 completion average. Says Parseghian, happily contemplating two more seasons of Myers' passing: "All we had to do was teach...