Word: benham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other defect was the left side of the Crimson line. Both in the air and on the ground, this was the side that Columbia probed most effectively. Benham was particularly effective on the option play, pitching out just before being tackled, or else faking the pass or pitchout and running the ball...
...game, however, was decided not through any overwhelming superiority on the part of the whole Columbia team, but on a lucky deflection of Benham's last pass, only his second long heave of the game...
Phil Haughey kicked off to the ten, and Lion captain Art Wilson returned it up the right side to the 31. Benham then tried a short bullet pass to end Ron Szczypkowski, but was wide of the mark and threw directly into the hands of Crimson captain Ted Metropoulos, who couldn't hold onto the ball...
Thus reprieved, Benham faded back again on the next play and threw deep to halfback Ed Spraker. The toss was a bit short, and safety man Matt Botsford reached up for it on the Harvard 33 but only tipped the ball up toward Spraker, who gathered it in on the 25 and loped across for the winning score at 12:02. It appeared that if the ball had not been tipped up, Spraker would still have caught it but would have had to wait for it and could not have scored...
...game began, it appeared that Harvard would roll up the score. On the first play from scrimmage, Benham passed over the left side of the line, the ball was batted into the air, and Ron Eikenberry took it and raced 36 yards for a touchdown at 0:43. Stahura converted...