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With 45 seconds left in the half, Harvard faced third and 15 from its own 38. Allard sent a pass in the direction of Army safety Mike Williams, who returned the interception 28 yards to the Harvard 48, thus becoming the first Cadet to see Crimson territory in 25 minutes...
Crimson quarterback Don Allard took the final snap of the afternoon and checked left to find his receivers mobbed by the Cadet defense. Looking right, Allard discovered tight end Ed Farrell wide open three yards in front of the Army end Zone...
This sort of space-cadet's anti-intellectualism is especially troubling at a time when real-life intellectuals are suddenly finding themselves threatened by rigid fundamentalists. Proponents of the bankrupt theory of creationism have launched a surprisingly successful crusade against teachers of evolution. Stern schoolboards have revived the archaic practice of book-banning; their hysterical search for evil influence in the most innocent quarters calls to mind nothing so much as a swinging single's fear of herpes...
...perhaps the greatest charm of the book is its subtle disingenuousness. It bridges two worlds, because no matter how great its sympathy for the era it describes, it was written today, and its sensibilities are as wise as our own. A scene in which a cadet shows off his skill with an airplane for his sweetheart from the girls' school begins with the wide-eyed enthusiasm of the era, but just a few words later and Freeman is describing the nosedive with modern phallic abandon. Later on, a troubled character exclaims that not even "Professor Freud" could explain his malady...
...rest of the collegiate squash world follows their duels like fans. Following his team's 9-0 shellacking, Army coach Paul Assaiante offered the evaluation that, "although Princeton's pretty tough on racket skills, Harvard's probably better." "In other words," Crimson number two Geordie Lemmon paraphrasea the Cadet mentor, "He's telling us, 'Don't get excited and choke...