Bill Meigs accomplished a very rare feat last year. On a Harvard team which had a luke-warm (4-3-1) season, and which drew a minimum of national attention to its games, Meigs was able to earn enough votes to gain a place on the Associated Press All-American second team.

But last week in New York, a newspaper columnist, bill Wallace, who writes in the World-Telegram and Sun, said Meigs was out-played against Cornell by a sophomore named Chris Hatton. This sharp criticism against the versatile Meigs was tantamount to calling McCarthy a Communist as far as the Crimson team was concerned.

It seems that Wallace didn't see the Cornell game but was using the word of some unnamed scouts who were there. They asserted that Meigs was spending most of the afternoon in the Soldiers Field mud. But no sooner had this story been printed on Thursday than Harvard retaliated.

Publicity man Hank Johnston, whose main function is that of writing releases and sending out free photographs, struck the first blow for the Crimson that same Thursday at a football luncheon. Asked to comment on the story, Johnston said bluntly, "Nobody, just nobody ever outplays Meigs."

That succinct sentence summed up the views of the ired Harvard team, which by Friday was in New York. No one knows how Meigs felt, but the rest of the team was pretty vocal to writers. The Crimson claimed that the Big Red deliberately ran no plays at Meigs the whole game, and therefore he had little chance to show his true prowess.

From the Soldiers Field press box, it seemed that the whole Harvard line was weak with one exception, number 61--Meigs. He was in on many plays, and was all over the field trying for tackles. Harvard's weakness lay not in the center of its line, but on its outside. Meigs can only play one position at a time, and despite Wallace's informers, he still plays it the best in the Ivy League.