Ivy Roundup: Favorites Fall

The sound of bookies dancing in the street could be heard throughout the cities and towns of the Ivy League yesterday, and who can blame them.

Three of four favorites in the first Saturday of league action were upsets, and the other, Princeton, had to come from behind to tie.

For starters, we'll leave the nauseous details of the Harvard-Columbia affair to someone else.

The biggest of the opening day Ivy tilts was supposed to be the Yale-Brown contest in Providence. It turned out to be the biggest rout, with the Elis sandblasting the pre-season favorite Bruins, 21-0.

John Pagliaro wasn't around. Neither was Bob Rizzo. But the hired assassins they call the Yale defense were there in awesome numbers, holding Brown three times on downs inside its own 20, as well as forcing three key turnovers.

Yale scored all of its points in the first half, 14 of them in the first quarter. Tailback Mike Austin scored from two yards out three minutes into the contest, and then took a breather and watched reserve tailback Ken Hill dart 17 yards on a fourth and two situation for Yale's second score of the quarter.

Mike (fake punt vs. Harvard last year) Sullivan broke for 56 yards down the left sideline at 10:29 of the second quarter for the Elis' last touchdown. Enter Yale defense.

They shouldn't all be this easy for Yale, and if they are, The Game might very well be The Blowout.

First-year Dartmouth coach Joe Yuckica seems to like the spartan existence of Hanover, New Hampshire, and yesterday Yukica's Spartans came up with 10 points in the fourth quarter to upset highly-regarded Penn, 31-21.

The Woodsmen's ball-control offense was the start of the show, and senior quarterback Buddy Teevens was master of ceremonies. Teevens completed 15 of 24 passes for 155 yards, rushed for 23 yards, and scored the winning touchdown in the fourth quarter. Halfback Dennis Grosvenor had two scores for the Quakers.

Princeton notched two touchdowns in the second half to tie Cornell 14-14.

Down 14-0 at half time, the Tigers got their first tally as a result of a successful fake punt, their second thanks to two fourth and short yardage conversions. Ed Arlin hauled in a 23 yard pass from junior quarterback Ken Barrett for the final score.