'Dartmouth' Poll: Ivy Forecasters See Yale Repeat

A poll of Ivy League sports editors conducted by the Dartmouth student newspaper has chosen defending champion Yale the overwhelming favorite to retain League football honors. Harvard finished fifth in the balloting.

The Brian Dowling-led Elis received five first place votes and 61 of a possible 64 votes. Trailing with the other three championship picks and 54 points was Princeton. Dartmouth, at 46 1/2, and Cornell at 42 1/2, rounded out the first division.

Not surprisingly, the Crimson figured a solid fifth with 34 votes followed by Columbia (19), Penn (15), and Brown (13).

The editors of the Brown Daily Herald, the Columbia Spectator and the CRIMSON refused to fall into the Yale camp. Only one editor, from the Daily Pennsylvania, put Harvard into the first division; he saw John Yovicsin's boys finishing second.