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Discounting Wednesday's easy 5-0 defeat of Tufts as genuine proof of Crimson strength, Coach Bruce Munro is looking to the season's first Ivy League game to supply the answers. "After Cornell," he said, "I may be ready to climb way out on the end of a limb...
With ten returning lettermen, a good crop of sophomores, and the enthusiasm engendered by a new coach, Cornell played perennially strong Penn to a scoreless tie Saturday and finally beat them in overtime, 1 to 0. "Either both lines lacked scoring punch," Munro commented, "or there were some terrific defenses. I have a feeling it was the latter...
From the Penn game, Cornell also has the advantage of experience in an Ivy League contest this year. League restrictions on substitution add to a generally higher level of play to make League games "different from anything we've seen this year," Munro said...
Harvard goes into today's game at slightly less than full strength. Tufts may not have injured anyone's pride, but the slow, rumbling Elephants did inflict a number of minor injuries on Crimson players. "On the whole," Munro reported, "they banged us up pretty badly...
Harvard completely dominated first-half play, to such an extent that Coach Bruce Monro could substitute his sophomores freely and give them valuable minutes of varsity experience. Whenever a Tufts defender broke up a Crimson play, Munro's halfbacks or fullbacks were also on the spot to retrieve the ball and apply the pressure again...