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...player most pre-season experts had figured to make the biggest difference for Harvard, however, was on the bench for the Merrimack contest. With 6-ft., 9-in. Monroe Trout in his Sunday best nursing an injury to the hand, sophomore Greg Wildes moved into the Crimson's starting quintet...
...time, if the Crimson falters in front of 70,000 spectators in the Bowl, more than 50,000 of them screaming for an upset, no one will remember how its defense proved itself down the stretch as the best in the league, or how Greg Gizzi came off the bench at midseason to revive the Harvard offense, or how Steve Ernst and Mark Vignali, game in and game out, provided maybe the Ivies' best rushing attack, or how Jim Villanueva supplied the league's most effective kicking game...
With Columbia leading the Crimson to a 43-14 romp, and sophomore Brian White the back-up quarterback, the all-state high school quarterback from Irvington, N.Y. appeared destined to spend his senior year on the bench...
...didn't play baseball at Harvard because, with two sports, I couldn't have survived gradewise." But he really missed the sport. And sitting on the bench in football, he had some second thoughts. "I knew I could play if I had the chance." But things just weren't working...
Gizzi decided to switch back to quarterback this year and to complete with eight others for the starting job. He sat on the bench for the last few games, until the ineffectiveness of Columbo and an injury to Sophomore Brian White gave him a shot Gizzi played well enough against Dartmouth in relief to get a start against Princeton...