The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
YALE'S 'COLOR',
 ALL-AR0UND GRID CLASS SHOWING
By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Staff Correspondent

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 New York, Nov. 15 - CUP9 - They had to keep the tradition of nearly three quarters of century alive, SO at Yale, Harvard and Princeton athletic officials decided to maintain inter collegiate foot ball in some form despite the war. That the effort was worthwhile was apparent today in the record books all three are unbeaten and united in inter- collegiate competition and the season has only two more weeks to go.
 For Yale it was more than geS- ture. Football at New Haven has been strictly big time and the bat tling Bulldogs have only to frus- trate the invasion of two southern teams, North Carolina and Virginia to chalk up their first perfect rec ord Season since 1923.
 Coach Howie Odell admittedly had more material than the other tradi- tional rivals in footballs famed Ivy League triumvirate. The Navy and Marines endowed him with an array of outstanding trainees and the Eli line was the best to represent the school in 20 years.
 The Bulldogs, without being spec tacular, have won six straight games and their most recent effort in de- | feating Brown, 13 to 0, showed them at their peak for the season, both offensively and defensively The Bears, considered one of the better New England teams, had little luck in penetrating the stout Yale line while the Eli "Bullpup' backfield, probably the lightest of any college team in the country, ran up plenty of yardage and two easy touch downs.
 COlorful, Too
 This 72nd edition of the Yale team has plenty of color along with it's quality. Marlin (Buzzy) Cher, 1855 pound, five foot, seven inch back field star, holds the air medal for heroism in 12 missions over Tarawa, Rabaul, and Bougainville and has one Japanese plane to his credit Now Navy ''trainee" he is Odells best blocker, and solid line plunger despite his lack of size.
 William Penn, the Big Guy" of the backf1eld, was assigned by the Navy to Yale after year of active service. In recent games he has been one of the most dependable ground gathers and scorers. The civilian star is 17-year-old Roger Barksdale of Little Rock, the Ar kansas Traveller" who is the best break-away runner, the shiftiest man in broken field in New Eng land In the line, the standout is Paul Walker at end, considered the best Yale terminal man since laughing Larry Kelly. A fine pass catcher and vicious tackler, he is getting plenty of All-America mo- tice.
 Virginia Tough
 Yale'S next defense of its perfect record will be Saturday against North Carolina, which has only a single victory in six starts, but which has played much stronger opposition than the Bulldogs. The big test will be against Virginia's Cavaliers, who have only defeat and tie marring their seven game record.
 Harvard and Princeton, playing informally. have had abbreviated schedules but expect to expand next season. The Crimson needs only to top Tufts second time to keep it's record clean for five collegiate games although 1t dropped a 10 to 0 decision to the Melville, R. I. PIT Boat eleven, an all-service team loaded with former proses and col lege stars. Princeton, which started belatedly has yet to face Swarth- more and Atlantic City Naval Training station.
 Other eastern games this week include my-Pennsylvania, Navy Purdue, Cornell-Dartmouth, Colum- bia Brown, Penn State-Maryland, Syracuse Colgate, Princeton Swarthmore, and New York Uni versity- Brooklyn College.