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...Allard wasted no time, hitting flanker Jim Garvey on a 13-yard toss on the first play. After an incomplete pass and a one-yard gain by halfback Scott McCabe, the Crimson quarterback took the ball himself for another 13-yard gain, to the Cornell eight. Unfortunately, a holding penalty moved the Crimson back to its own 27, faced with a third-and-15 situation...
...Allard rolled right and hit split end Wally Rutecki on a curl along the right sideline for 14 yards, bringing up a fourth-and-one play with 1 17 left in the half Harvard called time out and decided to go for the yard and a chance for six points, rather than settle for a field goal. The decision resulted in some immediate good news and some bad news momentarily delayed...
...good news was that an Allard keeper off right tackle picked up three yards and the first down. The bad news, though no one was aware of it at the time, turned out to be that the helmet of Cornell safety Tim Dolan smashed into Allard's left collarbone, bruising it so badly that the early words trickling into the press box were that Allard had a broken shoulder...
Despite the hit Allard stayed in the game, and three plays later the Harvard signal-caller rolled left and snaked the ball through the defense to Garvey cutting toward the center of the end zone for an 18-7 Harvard lead...
...Allard, (11 of 16, 104 yards, two TDs) did not come back for the second half as a result of his bad bone bruise, but the three touchdowns he put on the board before intermission, and a beautiful scoring drive executed by third-string QB Jack Riordan to open the second half--including Riordan's own 41-yard run--proved enough to clinch Harvard's second Ivy victory-(against no defeats) on the year, and raise the Crimson's overall record to 3-1. Harvard is in second place, behind Penn (3-0), in the league. And--further delayed good...