Today's game with Yale according to pre-season opinion was going to be a showdown between two unbeaten teams for the Ivy League championship. That was before Ravenel got hurt.

As it turned out, the Princeton-Yale game in New Haven last week decided the outcome of the title. In winning 43 to 22, Yale clinched a tie for the championship. Even if Harvard upsets Yale and Princeton beats Dartmouth today, the Blue would still share the title with the Tigers, both teams finishing with 6-1 Ivy records.

Princeton, still the league's top team on offense, churned out 292 yards on the ground (Hugh Scott contributed 145, John Sullivan 89) and 94 in the air (Sullivan completed five for six for 65 yards, Scott passed for the other 29) for an incredible total of 386 yards in its losing effort against Yale. Previous to that game Yale's bulwark defense, rated second only to Harvard's, had allowed only 6.4 points and 206.2 yards per Ivy game.

Undeniably a juggernaut, the Tiger eleven should roll over Dartmouth today, thus putting all the pressure on Yale.

Overcome Harvard Jinx

Coach Jordan Oliver's Bulldogs will be after more than the school's first Ivy title since 1956 and its first undefeated, untied season football record since 1923, though. They want to overcome the "Harvard jinx." Including freshman games, the juniors and seniors on this year's Yale team have never beaten a Harvard football club. For the 17 seniors in their last game for the Blue-the same men who formed the bulk of the winless team of 1958-today's contest will especially be a revengeful affair. In their freshman year they lost to Harvard 20 to 13, and in the following two varsity games they suffered defeats from the Crimson to the tune of 28 to 0 and 35 to 6.

The men of '61 in the starting lineup for Yale are Captain and left tackle Mike Pyle, left end John Hutcherson, left guard Ben Balme, center Hardy Will, right tackle Jim King, and the entire backfield-quarterback Tom Singleton, left halfback Lou Muller, right halfback Ken Wolfe, and fullback Bob Blanchard. (The other two men in the starting lineup are right guard Bill Kay, a sophomore who is filling in for Paul Bursick, the victim of a knee injury against Princeton last week; and right end Jim Pappas, a junior.)

Pointing out that none of the seniors had ever played in a winning football game against Harvard, a Yale news release earlier this week said: "The big reason? A gentleman from South Carolina by the name of Charles D. Ravenel."

"All of the Eli elder statesmen agree that in winning the greatest satisfaction comes from beating the best. They realize that a fine Harvard team is at its best with Mr. Ravenel at the controls. That's why Yale's 17 seniors would like to see Ravenel recovered from his early knee injury on Saturday," the press release added.

They want Harvard, Ravenel, and a win. But they are not going to get everything they want.

For Harvard, it is still a time for remembrance of things past. The last time Yale beat Harvard (in 1957) the Bulldogs unmercifully humiliated the Crimson, 54 to 0. In the 76-game Harvard-Yale series dating back to 1875, Yale has won 43 times to Harvard's 26. There have been seven ties.

Although Harvard's defensive record is still better than Yale's (the Crimson has given up a total of 1591 yards in eight games, Yale has allowed 1917 yards), Yale will be very hard to stop.

Here's what to look out for from the Bulldogs, one of the four major teams in the country still unbeaten and untied (along with Missouri, New Mexico State, and Utah State) and presently ranked 14th in the nation by the Associated Press.

On the kick-off: If Yale kicks, end John Stocking will boot the now-famous Yale "squib-kick," an on-side kick that starts bouncing around crazy-like on the opposing team's 40 yard line. His kicks are usually off to the right in which case Crimson left end Bob Boyda will be fielding a lot of grounders today.

If the Crimson kicks off, hope that right halfback Wolfe for the Blue doesn't get the ball. Against Penn two weeks ago he returned five kick-offs for 250 yards-the major reason why he was chosen Ivy back of the week after that game. Against Princeton Wolfe showed that he is a menace in this respect, running a kick-off 52 yards from his own goal line to the Princeton 48. On that return, he faked a reverse (not usually done on a kick-off) to Muller.