Word: almost
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After a fine Keller-Sarmiento corner kick that the Crimson almost converted, Mauro tried a free kick from nearly the same spot. This time he scooted it low toward the goal and Mike Smith redirected it past Stringfellow for a 1-1 tie with 31:19 gone...
...truth, UMass was not very impressive. Rushing for just 79 yards on 49 carries (Harvard was 45-127), the Minutemen had to live with almost no ground game. The Harvard defense proved that its performance against Columbia was no fluke as it closed the holes opened by the behemoth UMass lineman...
Restic discredited his squad's heavy penalty total as the result of aggressive play. "I can't fault that," he said. But he was sorely depressed--almost crushed...
When Harvard took the second-half kickoff and began moving downfield smoothly, visions of "Buchanan the Saviour" flashed through the stadium. Using the option from a power-I formation, Buchanan worked with his backs, almost perfectly...
From then on, it was first-down losses or penalties that stifled the Harvard attack, putting young Buchanan into an immediate hole with second and long on almost every drive...