Two prize nuggets, really. This season, brother Paul Scheper, a sophomore, joined Dave on the Harvard varsity. Like his brother, a conquest of super-recruiter Francis P. Locke '33, Paul moved up from fifth string running back at the start of the season to making the traveling squad. Dave's pride in his brother's achievements does not, however, extend to Paul's defection from the ranks of Notre Dame fans.

Dave feels his close relationship with his brother is typical of the close spirit of the entire team. "I just love our team. Our seniors are a very small exclusive group and we're accessible to the rest of the team." he says. "We'll be a team to remember if we can be inspired every week."

The job of maintaining such an attitude lies with coach Restic, Scheper feels. "I love him," Scheper says, repeating a phrase that filters into his speech regularly. "He's much looser, more comfortable now than he's been in the last two years."

On Restic's controversial Multiflex, the offensive system by which Harvard lives and dies, Scheper looks on the bright side. "It's a beautiful offense when it's run well. The total flexibility of it is what's great. I appreciate it more each year."

But Scheper says what impresses him most about Restic--and it is a talent Scheper values greatly--is the coach's ability to communicate. In a recent chalk session, Scheper says, Restic "looked at us and said, 'if you do this right, it will work 100 per cent of the time,' and in that room you could have picked up the confidence in your hand."

Scheper began communicating back in Pony League baseball, when he would take over the loud speaker and broadcast the games. He moved up to a videotape machine in high school, and then, while warming the bench sophomore year, he and fullback Al Altieri would do play-by-plays from the sidelines.

After another year doing basketball on WHRB, Scheper might give a broadcasting career a try, but he's not making any committments. Another possibility is Law school. To the suprise of no one, one school seems to attract Scheper more than any other: Notre Dame.