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...Harvard's first two games this season, Joe Restic's squad has treated Crimson followers to exhibitions of the best and the worst of Harvard football. On one hand--in last week's game with "Boston University--the Harvard offense found itself, staging a scoring circus rivaling anything ever seen in these parts. Harvard scored the first five times that it had the ball last week and made a reality out of the Restic propaganda that has flooded Cambridge for the last two years...
Both performances stand up to shout "This is Harvard Football!" But which tells the real story? Both are significant. They sum up the strong and weak points of Joe Restic's second campaign. But is either showing indicative of things to come...
...Restic wants a publicity film for "Ivy Football--Canada Style," all he has to do is take the film of the first quarter against BU. It was Restic's style played to perfection. And it was beautiful. The Crimson attack, choreographed by Eric Crone, was smoother than a preppy's pick-up lines. The pieces dropped precisely into place. Everything Restic talks about when Restic talks offense was there is that quarter. There were backs in motion, ends in motion, multiple sets, multiple shifts, roll-out passing, drop-back passing, imagination, and above all, scoring. Especially scoring...
...Restic's offense displayed a dexterity for scoring unheard of in Cambridge, and variety not seen since Ed Sullivan went off the air. Restic's offense arrived last Saturday and showed--at least for 15 blissful minutes--that it is the most varied and explosive in the Ivy League...
...football. But will the evil and good persist as the season unfolds? Are Crone's boys as good as the BU game? Are the deep men as bad as Pennington made them look? With Harvard's first real test rearing up this weekend in New York City against Columbia, Restic has to find out and fast. Columbia is too good a team to foot around with Harvard if the Crimson can't cut it. Frank Navarro's boys think they can go all the way, and they'd think nothing of stomping on Harvard en route...