Word: buchananism
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...Buchanan did a heck of a job under the conditions," he said. "The defense just couldn't do any better under those conditions. We hung right in there...
When Harvard took the second-half kickoff and began moving downfield smoothly, visions of "Buchanan the Saviour" flashed through the stadium. Using the option from a power-I formation, Buchanan worked with his backs, almost perfectly...
Fifty seconds into the half Buchanan hit Chuck Marshall for a 14-yd. gain and his first varsity completion. (Buchanan finished at 6-13 for 86 yards on the day.) Working to the right on countless pitchouts to Connors, Harvard rolled to the UMass 16. Then the penalty flag appeared again. An inelligible receiver downfield sent Harvard back to the 34 and ended the drive...
From then on, it was first-down losses or penalties that stifled the Harvard attack, putting young Buchanan into an immediate hole with second and long on almost every drive...
...next drive, Harvard posted its only points of the day, but not before the Crimson offset a helpful UMass face-masking penalty with a clipping violation of its own. Nonetheless, the Crimson rumbled to the Minutemen's 18-yd. line sparked by a 52-yd. Buchanan-to-Horner fly pattern. Then Connors took on option play and lofted a pass into the endzone, where Horner ripped the ball from a UMass defender's fingers for the score...