Word: champi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them to Hill. The score was 22-0 deep in the second quarter, and the Elis seemed headed for an effortless victory. Then Harvard discovered a Merriwell of its own. Off the bench to replace the Crimson's harried regular Quarterback George Lalich, trotted Second Stringer Frank Champi, 20. A local boy from Everett, Mass., Champi's athletic reputation was based on his record as a javelin thrower...
...openers, Champi drilled a 15-yd. pass to End Bruce Freeman for one Harvard TD. He set up another score with a 26-yd. toss to Sophomore End Pete Varney. Yale's Dowling got that one back with a 5-yd. run, but now the momentum belonged to Harvard as the Crimson defense stiffened, forcing five Yale fumbles in the second half. The big problem was the clock. With less than 2 min. left and the score Yale 29, Harvard 13, Champi went to work. From his own 14, he marched the Crimson 86 yds. in nine plays, hitting...
...rushed Cham-pi; on first down, unable to find anyone to pass to, he scrambled 14 yds. to the Yale 35. A face-mask penalty on the tackle took the ball down to the 20. More important, it stopped the clock. A draw play gained 14 yds., but then Champi lost 2 yds. trying to pass. The clock read 3 sec.; time for only one more play. Back again dropped Champi, frantically dodging tacklers, searching for a receiver. Just as he was about to be buried under Yale men, he unloaded a perfect pass to Halfback Vic Gatto...
...took officials 2 min. to clear the field so that Harvard could line up for the conversion attempt. Needing two points to tie, Champi got them with a pass to Varney. There it ended. Harvard 29, Yale 29. In the wildest, most exciting college football game of the year, nobody and everybody...
...Frank Champi, the junior quarterback who started all of the other J.V. games, did not suit up yesterday, and Frank Smith, the other junior Q.B. suited but played only a few minutes. Speculation was that either or both could see considerable action today against Cornell's varsity...