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Soaring interest buoys the buck but starts a slide in housing
...third and 15, St. John worked from the shotgun and hit Callinan down the middle for a 23-yd. gain to the Eli nine. Callinan came back on the ground to buck for six more on first down. With the clock running past the 5-minute-to-go mark, Hollingsworth bulled to the two. And just seconds later, the Harvard sideline exploded as St. John rolled right on a keeper and stretched his body out just past the goaline for what was the icing on Harvard upset-flavored cake. Cody's kick was blocked but the Crimson still held...
With Eichner out; number three Buck Logan suffering from the flu or a bad cold; and John Murphy, the Crimson's number one man for the second half of the season, severely hampered by tendonitis in his left knee; Harvard, in effect, ran without its three top runners...
...really proud of us," McNulty said. "If I'd known that Eichner and Buck wouldn't run and Murph would be walking the last mile to finish 24th, I'd have slept late, watched the football game, and then read the results in the paper on Sunday...
Religious fervor within the concrete and stone walls of the grand horsesoe could be just the thing to snap Harvard out of its doleful wanderings. No more "beat' em, beat' em, buck' em. . . " We need enlightening recitals of Thomas Hooker's "A True Sight of Sin," or Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." We must rally around the Puritan cause and repulse the Quaker blasphemy as our ancestors once did to Anne Hutchinson...