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Frank Champi, the hero of last year's Yale game and the number one quarterback for the Crimson this fall, has quit the team. Rumors that he was considering quitting had been circulating for the past week, and Champi confirmed them last night.
"It wasn't me playing out there; I was just going through the motions and I wasn't enjoying it." Champi said. "I've been thinking seriously about it for the past two weeks. It's a very hard decision," he explained.
Harvard's most pressing problem so far has been quarterbacking and now the Crimson is without its number one signal caller. Champi's quitting does make the problem of who's going to quarterback a bit less complicated for coach John Yovicsin, however.
He explained that he didn't quit earlier because he wanted to prove something to himself and because he felt an obligation to the team. "It's been a long process of evaluating the game as far as my own personality goes." Champi said.
It was fourth down at the Harvard 38, there was one minute and two seconds left to play, and even worse, Harvard was behind, 13-10. There was one consolation-the Crimson had the ball. The press box people, strange species that they are, were yelling for Richie Szaro, the...