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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...
After the kickoff, Botsford interspersed eight passes with two runs and a Columbia penalty, but only one pass was complete, and Columbia got the ball to run out the clock...
After the teams exchanged fumbles, Harvard started a drive from its own 39. Botsford completed two passes, and he, Eikenberry, and Stahura ran to the Columbia nine. After a backfield in motion penalty, Simourian came in and passed to Stahura in the left flat, and Stahura shook off two tacklers to score. The placement was blocked and Harvard...
...remainder of the Crimson backfield that started against Cornell will be intact. Walt Stahura, who enjoyed the best game of his career, will be at left half, Tony Gianelly, who plunged for the third touchdown against the Big Red, will be at fullback, and Matt Botsford will once again direct the attack at quarterback...
...judge from this week's practices and the Cornell game, the Crimson can be expected to pass more often than in recent seasons. Both Stahura, Botsford, and substitute quarterback John Simourian will do the throwing, with ends phil Haughey and Tom Hooper the favorite receivers, along with Eikenberry and Stahura...