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RUNNING BACK--A bumper crop, led by Cornell tailback Joe Holland, who will undoubtedly win the Asa Bushnell cup for the Ivy player of the year. Harvard's first-rate scooter, Ralph Polillio, joins Holland on the first team at the halfback spot. Brown's Marty Moran weighs in as the first-team fullback, leaving Dartmouth's Jeff Dufresne, Penn's Denis Grosvenor, Yale's Ken Hill and Princeton's Cris Crissy on the second team. (Harvard's P. Wayne Moore makes the all one-game team for his brilliant performance against Columbia for breaking his ankle...
...Elis have recovered from the devastating Rutgers wounds that knocked them from the Ivy League vanguard--the defense has allowed eight points per Ivy game, the offense has a run-pass quarterback (Pat O'Brien), a tough inside fullback attack and a fast outside double-halfback attack, along with a shoo-in All-Ivy split end in John Spagnola...
Harvard (4-3-1) has some names to crow itself. QB Larry Brown needs 183 yards passing to set the single-season school mark (he owns the career record with 2403). Halfback Ralph Polillio needs just over 100 yards to surpass the 1000-yd. total offense mark...
Coach Joe Restic and the Multiflex had to bear a lot of the blame for that loss (along with Weird Incident Number One of the year--a two-point conversion on a trick play by the Lions). The three halfback offense seemed ineffectual at the time, and it looked even worse after the next week's results came in: a 10-0 trouncing of UMass with fullback Matt Granger in the power...
Taking the ball on the Crimson 35, Brown sent halfback Ralph Polillio (41 first-half yards) on rushing missions after rushing mission, while mixing it up with a couple of well-thrown but barely thwarted passing attempts...