The Week

EAST

1. DARTMOUTH (9-0)
2. PENN STATE (7-3)
3. BOSTON COLLEGE (7-2)

After undefeated, 14th-ranked Dartmouth rolled up a 28-0 lead and then rubbed it in by recovering a perfect onside kick, Pennsylvania Coach Bob Odell said that he was so mad he couldn't see. Pancho Micir, the Penn quarterback, hadn't been able to see very well all day. The Dartmouth defense-men had sworn to bury Micir, and this they did. He completed only nine of 24 passes for 97 yards and was thrown for eight losses. Dartmouth intercepted four passes, the first leading to a four-yard touchdown by John Short. Dartmouth Quarterback Jim Chasey got a touchdown of his own on a 16-yard carry, then he let the Short show resume. John capped a 72-yard drive with a 34-yard pass reception, and it was Short again with a 22-yarder for the final score and the Green's sixth shutout. Sorting out all his winning years in a moment of reflection, Coach Bob Blackman announced, "This has got to be my best team."

But Penn State's father figure, Joe Paterno, could not see Dartmouth as the Lambert Trophy winner and No. 1 in the East. He and the Nittany Lions voted down a bid to the Peach Bowl—one they had not got—and Paterno said what he really wanted to do was meet the Indians. "I challenge Dartmouth to play us Dec. 5 at Shea Stadium or Yankee Stadium or Franklin Field," he announced. "For that, we would play," confirmed Quarterback John Hufnagel. Amid the rhetoric, Penn State concentrated on realities long enough to defeat Pitt 35-15.

Popular John Yovicsin retired as the winningest coach in Harvard's long football history with a 78-42-5 record, exceeding even the legendary Percy Haughton's. His was also the best record against Yale, and it was sustained in this valedictory game by an emotional upset of the Bulldogs, 14-12. But Yovvy's farewell present was somewhat late in the wrapping. Behind 14-10, Yale had a first down on the Harvard 25 in the final minutes. The Crimson held, however, limiting Yale to five yards in four plays. A bizarre finale was still to come. With the clock running out, Harvard's sophomore quarterback, Eric Crone, ran about the end zone triumphantly waving the football. A congratulatory crowd flooded the field. In the midst of the jubilation, Yale's Ron Kell tackled Crone, and officials signaled a safety. Had he simply walked up to Crone, offered a handshake and snatched the ball, he would have had a touchdown and the final score would have been Yale 16, Harvard 14.

Spraddle-legged, rubber-kneed Tailback Ed Marinaro picked up 203 yards and became the first Ivy League national rushing champion of recent years with a 158.3 yard average. (The NCAA this year has decreed that the rushing title will go to the back with the highest per-game average, not the highest season yardage total.) Marinaro, from New Milford, N.J., set an Ivy season record of 1,014 yards, breaking his own mark, and bested Gary Wood's Cornell and Ivy career high by totaling 2,016—as a junior. His 47 carries against Princeton were also a league record. Marinaro, although not as fast as O.J. Simpson, cuts as quickly. "He cuts so sharply," says Yovicsin after Harvard's game with Cornell, "that I had to slow my pursuit to have any chance of containing him. Otherwise he cuts back against the flow and gets away." Marinaro was more than the margin as Cornell beat Princeton 6-3. Brown, winproof in six previous Ivy games, had no trouble beating Columbia 17-12. Syracuse wrung Miami 56-16, and Boston College, enjoying its most successful season since 1962, beat the University of Massachusetts 21-10.