About this time of year last spring's romances are completely on the rocks, new couples are being formed, the leaves are coming down, hour exams have begun, Harvard is playing Dartmouth, Dartmouth is playing "I've got a secret," and it is once again clear that the Ivy League is totally, delightfully, and hopelessly confused.

Conoisseurs of the comparison score game have found the going more than a little bewildering thus far. For instance, Columbia slaughtered Brown, then Brown nearly caught Dartmouth; is Columbia going to destroy Dartmouth? Not a chance. Or try this sequence: Yale beats Columbia. Harvard tops Cornell, Cornell edges Yale, Harvard ties Columbia. Does that make sense? Not a chance.

It is pleasant news, therefore, that most of the Ivy teams today are playing with non-League opponents. These games, while hardly completely predictable, should produce results a little less insane than the recent League encounters.

Brown is host to Rhode Island, and the game should give the Bruins a chance to extend their winning streak to two games. Probably the most interesting thing in Providence will not be the scoreboard, but the attempt of Jim Dunda to get Rob Hall back on the bench.

Hall, who was supposed to be an obedient understudy for the more famous Dunda, has had a truly remarkable sophomore season and has almost turned Dunda into a piece of excess equipment. There should be plenty of opportunities for both boys to score and shine today.

Pennsylvania ran into a strange creature last Saturday--a thoroughly aroused and powerful Brown bear. The result was another surprisingly bad defeat for the Quakers. They managed to pick up their first touchdown in several weeks, but Brown was satisfied with nothing less than 41 points.

This week the Quakers have an excellent chance to win their second game of the year. Rutgers is in Philadelphia and despite last week's conquest of Lehigh, there is no particulary compelling reason to suppose the Scarlet Knights are a good football team yet. Neither is Penn, though, so the battle could be close.

To Yale this year must go the mid-season award for the most confusing football team in the Ivy League. John Pont has gone Ivy early in his career, guiding his team to a magnificently erratic season thus far.

Today the Yalies entertain Colgate and only a fool would place money on the outcome. That is not to say Yale shouldn't win--it should. Obviously. But Colgate has had some good moments, and Yale may have several bad ones left, so this one has to rate as a toss-up.

This brings us to the only League contest besides the skirmish in the Stadium. Princeton's surging Tigers receive what should be a strong test today from Gary Wood and the Big Red.

Cornell beat Yale last week, of course, but that is not a very good indication. It probably means that the team is not sufficiently "up" for today's encounter.

Princeton, on the other hand, is suddenly in the position of being one of the few legitimate pretenders to the Ivy throne. The Tigers can be expected to want to win badly enough to come away a key win