This campaign doesn't promise to be a winning one for Cornell, which returns only 10 starters from last year's 2-7 team. A season opener at Penn is no help either.

Shawn Maguire is back for his third year at quarterback, with fullback John Tagliaferri rounding out a mediocre backfield. A good unit of receivers and three returning starters from the offensive line make the offense relatively strong compared to a defense that returns only three starters, none in the secondary. It should be a long season in Ithaca.

Last year, Columbia, the league's perennial doormat, got a new stadium and still went winless. This season, it's a new coach the Lions have got and the losing tradition should start to change...finally. Coach Jim Garrett left a position with the Cleveland Browns to take the helm at Columbia and it will take all of his 15 years of NFL experience to change the fortunes of a team that has not won a title in 24 years.

Henry Santos will direct Garrett's multiple-formation passing attack offense. Garrett's son John should be Santos' leading receiver. The Columbia defense will look to linebacker Winslow Cervates and safety Joe Policastro for help on a team that held opponents to under 30 points only three times in nine games last year. Columbia won't win the championship, but expect Garrett's Lions to surprise any team that plans on an easy "W."

The Butler Will Do It

On a team that has Doug Butler, the Ivy League's best passer, one wonders why Princeton first-year Coach Ron Rogerson has implemented the wing-T formation, primarily a running offense.

Butler and tailback Chris Ratliff will highlight the Tiger offense, which will be exciting if Rogerson allows Butler to throw the ball often. Adjusting to Rogerson's system should hurt the Tigers, who must play Colgate, Penn and Harvard on consecutive Saturdays late in the season.