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Lining Them Up

Blue plus Blue and Red = Ivy League

Pennsylvania and Yale, as was expected, emerged from last weekend's gridiron battles practically without mussing their parts and, with a skein of three victories against no defeats apiece, seemed certain to be on top of the Ivy League heap come the final judgement day, November 27.

That date, to the Eli Blue and to the Blue and Red Quakers, may mean Thanks-giving; but it can mean nothing but blacks and blues to the other six battered members of the oldest football conference in the world. The only thanks they will be able to give is that they won't have to combat the aforementioned worthies for another athletic association's fiscal year.

With only the not-so-Big Red of Cornell left on its inter-league schedule, Pennsylvania is as near certain as it ever will be to an undefeated loop record.

But unless Richard Cresson Harlow can dupe the Bulldog for four quarter instead of last year's one, it looks like Yale will take the title. For the Quakers, again forsaking their cloistered neighbors for redder meat, would have only four successful appearances to match Eli's six (with Brown, Princeton, and Harvard being serviced the next three weeks).

Every other team in the conference has suffered two losses at this, the mid season mark, except the Crimson, which has played only one game. But don't sell Harvard short. When a team gets as "up" for a game as they do for Yale, anything can, and usually does, happen. Ivy League Standings Team  Won  Lost  Pts.  Opp. Pts. Pennsylvania  3  0  92  21 Yale  3  0  54  21 Dartmouth  2  2  41  78 Columbia  1  2  41  51 Princeton  1  2  40  61 Cornell  1  2  28  55 HARVARD  0  1  18  14 Brown  0  2  17  84

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