YALE SCRIMMAGE

You may have already picked up the rumor that Dartmouth and Yale will conduct a pre-season football scrimmage.

It's no rumor. The traditional Ivy League rivals will convene for a day of varsity and jayvee scrimmage (all controlled without punts or kickoffs and with every effort made to eliminate the ability to determine a measure that might provide a psychological influence on the November 4 battle).

The date is September 23, the site is Yale Bowl, with jayvees working in the morning and the varsity teams meeting in the afternoon.

The idea of the scrimmage was developed by Jake Crouthamel and Yale coach Carmen Cozza as a solution to the problem of arranging an outside scrimmage with teams not normally on the schedule. Since the Ivy teams play only nine games while virtually everyone else plays ten, the outside scrimmage in the past two years has fallen midway through pre-season practice rather than a week before the opener.

Neither coach liked the situation. Hence, a new arrangement.