Clasby Ranked Fourth In Punting Statistics

Dick Clasby, All-East tailback, ranked fourth in the country in punting in statistics released by the N.C.A.A. Service Bureau. He kicked 30 times in eight games with a 41-yard average per punt. This average would have been higher had it not been for the punt which Brown blocked, Clasby's only unsuccessful kick of the season. Harvard was ninth in team punting with a 39-2-yard average for 49 kicks in its eight games.

Clasby tied for 15th in the AP poll of the nation's sportswriters and broadcasters to determine the outstanding back of 1953. Only one other Easterner was named, Bernie Faloney of Maryland, who ranked fifth. Paul Giel of Minnesota nosed out Notre Dame's Johnny Lattner for the award.