Kross has spent most of his free time this past week burrowing through the paperwork involved in applying for the Rhodes Scholarship. Clark, on the other hand, has been interested in human rights issues for years and was active in the South Africa protests last spring.

Compulsion

But for the next four weeks--their last in organized football--Harvard's two standout lineman have one goal in mind: to win four straight and possibly take the Ivy crown.

"I've been having this dream lately where I wake up the day after the Yale game, and we're champions of the Ivy League," Clark said yesterday as he picked up his breakfast tray.

And, of course, the championship remains a possibility, albeit an elusive one. Ironically, when Kross and Clark talk about such moments of glory, they talk about it from the typical offensive lineman's point of view--not an individual one at all.

"One of the best feelings for an offensive line is when you look back and see you're part of a machine," Kross said. "It's almost like an art."

And for four more weeks, Harvard's trench artists non-pareil will keep fashioning their fine work, for the most part unnoticed.