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Adjuster Matt Foley blitzed repeatedly, and together with consistent pentration applied by the Crimson's always-impressive defensive line, freed the backfield to ball-hawk and usurp any of the home team's initiatives...
...Crimson defensive backfield adjusted well to the slippery astroturf, and managed to minimize the damage inflicted by the talented Fahenstock. The line played its usual firebrand style of football, and linebackers Bob Woolway and Brad Stinn plugged the gaps. Cavanaugh conceded that the Crimson defense's stunting tactics and ability to contain the Cadets' running attack confused Army. "Harvard is an extremely well-coached football team," he added...
...defeat, however, two cadets have turned in brilliant performances: quarterback Gerryl Bennett (42-82, .512, 566 yards and five touchdowns) and wide receiver Mike Fahnestock (18 catches for 311 yds, and three TDs). While this combo has a ways to go before it makes anyone forget the glorious wartime backfield of Doc Blanchard and Glen Davis, any Crimson hopes of victory must begin with the containment of this pair...
...first time, Restic will have a fully healthy backfield to control the ball. Senior Paul Connors, Harvard's second leading rusher last fall, will return to the backfield, though not in a starting role. Because of a pair of groin pulls, Connors didn't practice at all until this week, and Restic will start Paul Scheper again at halfback. "Paul (Connors) is not yet where he has to be," the coach said yesterday...
Also, junior fullback Jim Callinan, hero of The Game last year and semipermanent invalid, will play after sitting out most of the Columbia game with a badly bruised shin. Callinan and Connors, both backs of considerable--if mostly unrealized--talent should join Tom Beatrice in the backfield and give Buckley every opportunity to take complete control. Of the injured list, Restic said, "We're better off than we were a week...