This week's trivia question concerns Garrett, who will coach his son, John, a starting wide receiver for the Lions.

Now name the last father-son combination in Ivy League football. Answer below.

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Despite all this talk of Columbia's porous past, let's not forget that with seven minutes to go in last year's game, Harvard (5-4 overall, 5-2 Ivy last year) found itself on top by less than a touchdown, 27-21. Brent Wilkinson, the captain of this year's Crimson squad, returned an interception 45 yards for a touchdown with three minutes to go to put the game out of reach.

Other highlights of last year's showdown before a capacity crowd of 10,500 included Santiago's 204 yards rushing and senior quarterback Brian White's first career scoring pass.

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Ever wonder what a Harvard football player does in the summer?

The complete breakdown from this past summer is as follows: 13 percent had summer jobs in banking or finance, 11 percent had jobs in law, 11 percent in consulting or research, 11 percent in engineering, 9 percent in real estate, 5 percent in personal business, 5 percent worked as painters, 5 percent worked as lifeguards.

And on top of the list were 39 percent of the squad members, who worked in construction or maintenance.

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Penn, which last year became the first Ivy team since the 1970 Dart-mouth squad to win all seven of its league games, opens defense of its 1984 crown this weekend against Cornell.

If they pull the trick, the Quakers--who have won three straight Ancient Eight crowns-- would become the first Ivy team since Dartmouth to win four titles in a row. The Big Green did it in the late '60s and early '70s.

Elsewhere around the Ivy League this weekend, Princeton visits Dartmouth and Brown travels to Yale.

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From this week's trivia file come this fact: Harvard and Columbia have identical bowl records. Both are 1-0-0 in bowl games, with each squad earning victories in the Rose Bowl. Harvard beat Oregon, 7-6, in 1919 and Columbia beat Stanford, 7-0, in 1933.

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Answer to this week's trivia question: the last father-son combination happened, coincidentally, at Columbia, where Coach Aldo T. Donelli coached his son, Richard, in 1958.

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THE NOTEBOOK'S NOTEBOOK: Harvard leads the Columbia series, 32-10-1... Its six straight wins leave the Crimson two shy of the series record... The Lions last defeated the Crimson, 21-19, in 1978... The winner of the past 20 Harvard-Columbia games has scored at least 20 points... The loser has scored 20 points just three times in that span... Harvard is looking for its sixth straight winning season. If it's successful, it would mark the most winning seasons in a row since a 10-year string from 1959-68... If the1