Unbeaten Kirkland Wins Interhouse Football Title

The Kirkland House football team wound up an undefeated season Tuesday, to win the intramural House league by beating Levertt, 8-0.

Michael Winn rambled 22 yards in the first quarter for the game's only score, and then Allen Yates added 2 points on the conversion. For the remainder of the game a superb Kirkland defense stifled the Leverett offense, which never penetrated the 35-yard line.

Kirkland's Kevin McCluskey, who usually plays as a wide receiver, called the signals for the injured quarterback, Gary Fretesi. The game was slogged out on the grounds however, because of bad weather and McCluskey's arm was never tested.

The game with Leverett, though it clinched the title, was somewhat anticlimatic. Kirkland's Carl Mahoney said the November 6 contest against Quincy was "definitely the big one."

In that game Kirkland eked out an 18-15 win as Barry Cronin scored the winning touchdown on a 15-yard run with two minutes left in the game.

Kirkland's defense was definitely the strong part of its team. During the season it allowed only three touchdowns. Eliot House scored one of the touchdowns after a fumbled kickoff and the other two were scored by Quincy.

Mahoney said one of the Quincy touchdowns was obtained by questionable methods.

The Quincy team put ten players on the field and hid the eleventh by the bench, he said, adding that the ensuing pass thrown to the eleventh player caught the Kirkland defense off guard, and the touchdown stood after Quincy cited an "obscure rule" in the argument that followed.

Kirkland and the runner up, Quincy, will now play two Yale house teams on November 22 at Harvard.

Kim Davis, Kirkland's captain, said, "Everyone who plays really enjoys the league, and you don't have to listen to a lot of screaming coaches."