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...Columbia offense with 11 goals last year form his center forward slot--will shift all the way back to stopper. Similarly, Barry Nix, last season's Player of the Year at sweeper, will move to the midfield, and starter Steve Pratton will migrate up front from his halfback role. Offensively, Ivy Rookie of the Year Steve Sirtis is back up front, but the coaching staff is counting on a couple of freshmen to replace Ali and Varney. Jamaican Soloman Gale and New York State High School high scorer Frank Ozello will try to fill the gaps. Goalie is another question...
...goalie Andy Krahling, who last fall recorded six shutouts and was spectacular as the Big Green upset Harvard, 2-1, in the New Hampshire rain. Coach Tom Griffith will depend heavily on other returning defensive and midfield standouts, including second-team All-Ivy fullback Tim May and halfback co-captains Steve D'Antonio and Chris Morrisson...
DIED. Clifford Battles, 70, National Football League Hall of Famer who gained a total of 3,542 yds. in his six seasons (1932-38) as a halfback for the Boston Braves (later called the Boston Redskins, then the Washington Redskins) and who, in his team's divisional championship season of 1936, showed remarkable versatility by rushing 176 times for 614 yds., completing 18 passes for 242 yds., catching six passes for 103 yds. and scoring 42 points on six touchdowns; of heart disease; in Clearwater...
...second half-after football halfback Paul Scheper had thrown up a weak Bermuda Shoot attempt--things picked up a bit. After the first six minutes, when Dartmouth managed to pull to within two, at 24-22, the Crimson--or more specifically, Harris--turned on the juice...
...little easier. Pierce, who is best known for his work in labor law, is the Cabinet's only black so far. An Eastern Establishment Republican, the son of a prosperous dry cleaner and real estate man in the New York suburb of Glen Cove, Pierce was a star halfback and Phi Beta Kappa graduate at Cornell, where he also earned his law degree in 1949. He then began building a long string of firsts, such as the highest-ranking black (as an assistant to an Under Secretary of Labor) in the Eisenhower Administration and the first black partner...