A Yale graduate and Navy veteran, he also said he didn't know enough about eiher Harvard or Army (Harvard-Yale, Army-Navy, get it?) to pick that game":

Or so the fellow answering the phones at The Washington Post's city desk said, after calling Woodward at home to investigate his knowledge of college football.

The West Point sports information director, another very nice man named Bob Kinney, went 4-2, and 1 had to be talked out of sending a copy of Kinney's predictions to woodward.

Let's be serious-he's a busy man. But so is Penn State football Coach Joe Paterno, Brown '50.

Paterno went 2-2, picking his alma mater over favored Harvard, but picked up points for returning the call himself.

And Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes (D-Md.), Princeton '54, broke the bank by picking at midnight, after a day on the campaign trait. It didn't hurt, though, that the person who lined him up. The Crimson's credit manager, happens to be a high school classmate of his son's.

So buoyed by success with one Princeton grad and member of Congress, the request went in to the reelection campaign of Sen. Bill Bradley (D.N.J.), Princeton '65.

It was a week and a half before Election Day, though, and the best Ivy basketball player ever was "in the district," as Washington staff members like to say. But it is one of his areas of interest, his campaign press secretary said when she promised to do the best she could.

"I have to tell you," she confided, "This is not a run-of-the-milt request."