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Before Cornell back-up quarterback Dave Dase hooked up with wide receiver Shaun Hawkins for a last-minute Hail Mary touchdown pass last Saturday in Ithaca, the Harvard football team looked for all the world as if it was about to assume sole leadership of the Ivy race.
Bucknell was easy. Yohe threw for another 265. Dave Bunning ran for over 100 yards. Your back-up quarterbacks--your own, peculiar, Joe Restic-style victory cigars--were warming up before the second half even started.
And the list of veterans is headed up by not one, but two outstanding goalies--juniors Stephen Hall and Chad Reilly. Hall is a talented European player who started four games for a 1.25 goals-against average before bowing out due to illness. Reilly, a walk-on two years ago...
The density of the crowd increased and the traffic in the Square became terribly congested. The electric trolleys, still in use in 1952, could not make their way through the Square because of the students blocking the streets and the back-up of other traffic. A handful of students, perhaps...
...The back-up hurler looked like she would have been more comfortable in her usual face mask and chest protector. Williams allowed six Crimson hits and walked four batters, as well as getting called for an illegal pitch.