Hevern Named to ECAC Weekly Squad
The Harvard football team, still high from Saturday's 27-24 victory over Cornell, went back to work Tuesday in preparation for this weekend's televised encounter with Dartmouth in Harvard Stadium.
Rick Frisbie, the only Crimson casualty against Cornell, practiced yesterday and will return the lineup to full strength Saturday. Meanwhile, the East Coast Athletic Conference (ECAC) announced its weekly team Monday and junior guard Gerry Hevern landed a spot on the first team.
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Frisbie was knocked unconscious in the second quarter when he and Brad Fenton combined to stop a bootleg by Big Red quarterback Rick Furbush. X-rays after the game revealed that Fribie has two fused cervical vertebrae, which make him susceptible to blows on the head.
The neurosurgeon who saw Frisbie Saturday gave him preliminary permission to resume playing, and final word was due late Tuesday afternoon. The All-Ivy cornerback has a long history of head injuries-in his sophomore year alone, Frisbie was knocked out on three occasions.
Furbush did not fare so well. The Cornell signal-caller left the game in the fourth quarter with torn muscles around his rib cage, and is listed as a doubtful starter for this week's game with Yale.
Hevern is the first Harvard lineman to be named to the ECAC weekly team this year. Surprisingly, no Crimson defensive players were mentioned. Other Ivy players on the team were Yale quarterback Joe Massey, Brown fullback Gerry Hart and Dartmouth tackle Barry Brink.
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Harvard coach John Yoviscin will go with the same starting lineup against Dartmouth. Monday he told the local papers that the Crimson will have to play as emotionally against the Indians as they did in last Saturday's victory over Cornell.
Surely they will-Dartmouth now leads the nation in average points per game (39.3) and has allowed only seven per game. The Indians also have the country's longest scoring streak (85 games) and are second in the voting for the Lambert Trophy behind Pitt.
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