The four teams picked most often by pre-season prognosticators to finish in Ivy football's first division all opened their league schedules Saturday with victories. While Harvard and Yale were grabbing hard-fought wins. Dartmouth and Cornell kept rolling along.

Dartmouth ran its victory skein to 12 with a 19-3 win over previously unbeaten Penn. Once again, the Indians played a poor first half. But Dartmouth scored 16 points in the last two periods to put down an audacious Quaker squad.

Good Job

Princeton did a good job on Ed Marinaro, but a tougher-than-usual Cornell defense did a better one on the Tiger offensive machine at Ithaca Saturday. The Big Red won, 19-8, to gain its third victory of the season without a defeat. Big Ed was held to a meager 144 yards, lower than his first two performances by 100 yards.

Yale made a lot of mistakes Saturday, but still managed to get by poor Brown, 17-10. Eli star Dick Jauron fumbled twice to set up Brown's touchdown and field goal. But the tough Yale defense held the Bruins' attack in check long enough for the Eli offense to catch up. Harvard's 21-19 win over Columbia ended the Lions' one-week reign at the top of the league.

Main Attraction

The Crimson travels to Ithaca this weekend to do battle with Cornell in the Ivy's main attraction. Yale plays Columbia at Baker Field. It will be interesting to see how the Lions react to their loss at Harvard. In the only other league game. Dartmouth will most likely murder Brown at Providence.

Princeton faces Colgate and Penn plays Lafayette in non-league action Saturday. Ivy Football Standings   W  L Cornell  1  0 Dartmouth  1  0 Harvard  1  0 Yale  1  0 Columbia  1  1 Penn  1  1 Brown  0  2 Princeton  0  2

Saturday's Games

Dartmouth at Brown

Yale at Columbia

Harvard at Cornell

Lafayette at Penn

Colgate at Princeton