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During pre-season practice this year, MacBean, a senior who played tailback in the old single-wing, beat out letterman Arnie Holtberg and sophomore Rod Plummer for the job, and soon established himself as one of the Ivy League's sharpest signal-callers...
...MacBean had not played quarterback in a "T" formation since his high school days, but the change was a welcome relief to him. "I was disappointed that we didn't pass more before. I like playing the "T" much more. The change is not so much what I do physically as what I do mentally. Now I am much more involved in the game," he said...
...still have some things to iron out. Personally, I have a problem adjusting to new wrinkles in the defense each week. If we had been playing a "T" for three years, I would know most of these wrinkles by now," MacBean said...
Apparently, these "wrinkles" have not posed too much of a problem for MacBean. Through six games, he has hit on 80 of 138 passes for 1049 yards and nine touchdowns. He has already broken Princeton's record of 72 completions in one season that dated back to Dave Allerdice in 1940, and he is closing in on several more...
...MacBean is presently leading the Ivy League in total offense with 781 yards, 165 yards ahead of Cornell's sophomore sensation Ed Marinaro. He is the only Ivy League passer that has not thrown an interception, and his 615 passing percentage ranks second in the league...