Bunnies Edge Elephants for Straus Award

Taking over where they left off in 1943, the muscular Bunnies of Leverett House emerged yesterday as the recipients of the annual Straus Trophy, awarded annually to the winner of the year-long intramural competition in 13 major and minor sports.

Paradoxically, the triumphant Bunnies managed to amass their 1,144 point total without a single sole championship in any of the major sports. In those fields, football was won by Kirkland, basketball by Leverett and Lowell, squash and crew by Eliot, and baseball by Eliot and Winthrop.

Leverett's 48 point margin over Eliot came primarily as a result of victories in touch football, wrestling, and golf, and seconds and thirds in other sports. Winthrop, Kirkland, and Lowell took third-fourth, and fifth places in the final standings.

Other individual championships went to Lowell in swimming, Kirkland in fencing and volleyball, Eliot in softball, and Winthrop in tennis. Adams, Dunster, and Dudley failed to cop any top laurels, though the Gold Coasters did send their victorious "A" squash team down to defeat the Yale champions at New Haven. Final House Standings Leverett  1144 Eliot  1096 Winthrop  1067 Kirkland  1037 Lowell  1028 Adams  869 Dunster  865 Dudley  675