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Brad Wilford won the starting quarterback job on the Harvard football team primarily because of his rocket arm. Saturday, however, he displayed all of his tools as a player, in guiding the Crimson to a 25-17 come-from-behind win against Holy Cross...
...model of poise all afternoon. Trailing 14-3 midway through the second quarter, Wilford marched his team downfield, finding captain tight end Chris Eitzmann twice on a 42-yard scoring drive for long gains. On first-and-goal from the Holy Cross 4, he unleashed his cannon arm, gunning a quick pass over the middle to junior fullback Grady Smalling for a touchdown...
...Wilford showed off more than his arm during the game, rushing for the Crimson's final touchdown midway through the third quarter. Off an option left, he faked the pitch to senior running back Chris Menick, which froze linebacker Patrick Colgan, allowing him to dart into the end zone...
Wilford didn't do such a bad job throwing the ball, either. He completed 17-of-29 for 202 yards, two touchdowns and a two-point conversion, flashing the strong arm that helped him earn the starting job this year. He threw to the sidelines with authority, giving the Crimson offense a dimension it lacked last year...
After retiring in 1985 to Daytona Beach, Fla., he focused his attention again on sports, concentrating first on the long jump and the high jump. His arm remained as strong as his legs. "I can still throw a softball 35 yds.," he says. So five years ago, he decided to test his arm with the javelin. "I was terrible," he says. "Accurate, but no length." He trained for jumping at a local high school, but for understandable liability reasons, the school did not offer javelin instruction. So Duckman watched videotapes of the best javelin throwers in the world and slowed...