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...difficult to tell just how this year's team got where it is. Troubles started early and dogged the squad through the first half of the season. The first problem was replacing Allard, the dominating quarterback who set a new school record for single-season total offense, established a new school single-game passing standard and fell just 15 yards short of the all-time Harvard single-season passing yardage record...
Instead of an obvious replacement for Allard. Harvard Coach Joe Restic entered fall training camp with enough quarterbacks to field a softball team, none of them experienced, none of them a clear pick to lead the Crimson offense on an Ivy Title defense...
...Allard '83 came into last year's stunning destruction of Yale quite familiar with such agony. After a heartbreaking no-time-left loss at Penn the week before, quarterback Allard & Co. came back to blast the Blue, 45-7. "It was the high point of my career. We were just a whole 'nother team that day. We could have done anything we wanted...
...made offense a game in itself," says Don Allard '83, last year's quarterback. "He made the X's and O's interesting. He could walk across the river and teach a class at Harvard...
...Looking back it's easy to see how complaints could be made," says Allard, who was a junior when the letter was written. "We just came off a terrible [28-Q] loss to Yale. It's a tremendous crutch when you lose to say that the offense is too complicated...