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...offense, the Tigers have a solid front wall anchored by center Andy Stephens. The backfield combination of speedy tailback Bobby Isom and fullback Gary Larson may be the best in the league. Only the passing game of quarterback Lockhart--injured versus Colgate but apparently ready--is suspect...
...week before, Dartmouth had shut out Yale, holding John Pagliaro to 62 yards on 41 carries. Earlier in the season, Harvard had averaged just one yard per carry over a two-game stretch. The starting Crimson backfield--Larry Brown, Chris Doherty, Jon Sigillito and Ralph Polillio--had a collective career total of 145 yards rushing before this season. And it was raining...
...Harvard went nowhere on the ground against the Big Green, right? Wrong. With the starting backfield slashing for 225 yards and Doherty taking individual honors with 92, the Crimson rolled for an average five yards a carry and scored more points against Dartmouth than any Cantabridgian contingent since...
...that to his 100-yard-plus performance in last week's 29-14 Yardling triumph over Naval Academy Prep and you begin to understand why the former Boston Clobe "Schoolboy Player of the Year" award winner is being touted as the future transfusion for Harvard's anemic varsity backfield...
...milk of human kindness Saturday on the football field. Joe Restic did a stint as Colgate's offensive coordinator from 1959-62 while O'Neill, who is currently Harvard's defensive coordinator, was an assistant coach at Colgate from 1964-72. Horan, who is the Crimson's offensive backfield coach, left Colgate to come to Cambridge seven years ago, the same year that Restic first arrived on the scene. O'Neill came to Harvard the following year after Horan brought him to Restic's attention...