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Haggerty led the Lions' attack with 83 yards in 19 attempts for a 4.4 average. Warren rushed for 79 yards, and fullback Tom O'Connor, good up the middle, added 74 more. Haggerty scored twice; Warren and O'Connor added the other two TD...
...starting, but certain to play, is the Ivy League's present Back of the Week, Al Butts, sophomore fullback who came off the bench and rushed for 66 yards, intercepted two passes, snared a Vasell aerial, and added a two-point conversion to his winning TD in the 11-0 victory over Yale last week...
...Lions are loaded. It came as no surprise Saturday when coach Buff Donelli's men marched over Yale, 11-0, in the Bowl. In its first three games, Columbia has amassed a surprising total of 81 points. (The Lions trounced Brown, 50-0, in their opener, and scored three TD's in their 30-20 upset-loss to Princeton in the second game...
...backfield, called by experts "the best Lion backfield since the War." Tom Vasell, one of the league's leading passers, is first string quarterback for the third consecutive season. Already this year, he has completed 21 out of 35 passes for a near-600 percentage, 263 yards, and one TD. Behind him is running strength in halfbacks Tom O'Connor and Russ Warren, who have logged over 180 yards apiece on the ground for averages of 5.9 and 4.5 yards per carry, respectively...
Fullback Tom Haggerty, another strong running threat, averages 4.5 yards per crack with a total of 74 yards in 15 attempts. Haggerty received a minor injury in the Yale game, and was relieved by a "new" find, Al Butts, who scored the Lions' one TD against Yale. Donelli was so pleased with Butts' performance that he plans to bench O'Connor--averaging about six yards per carry(!)--so that Butts can start against Harvard...