Penn Captain Felled By Scholastic Flub

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Pennsylvania's football captain, lineman Bob Evans, was declared ineligible yesterday by administration officials because of low grades.

Evans is the first Negro football captain in the history of the university.

A university spokesman said Evans was put on general probation by a university committee on eligibility. A similar ruling is applied to any Penn student who falls behind in scholastic work, he declared.

It is not known whether Evans, a senior, will be able to play again for Penn, which has games with Georgia, Army, and Cornell remaining.

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