Word: champi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sick and tired of hearing about Frank Champi. I'd imagine that even Frank Champi is tired of hearing about Frank Champi. But I would like to add an opinionated footnote to the Champi ease...
...lousy game. Yale pushed Harvard all over the place for thirty minutes. Dowling's untouchable credentials looked pretty impressive. Harvard couldn't move, Yovicsin put in Champi, and a combination of Yale ineptness, Harvard's perfection and an incredible set of circumstances led to the tie. For the Boston papers it was THE GAME of the century, and Champi was immortal...
...ironic that no one ever thought of it before last week. The very thing that made Champi's performance so unbelievable was the thing that had to debunk his deification. He was a substitute quarterback stepping into a hero's role. The old American success story. But in America heroes don't lose. And Champi knew when he came back to pre-season drills that he couldn't match his clippings. He admitted it. Harvard undergraduates knew it. Yovicsin, his staff, and Champi's teammates knew it. But the Boston papers chose to ignore...
...when Yovicsin admitted that Champi was his starting quarterback, but not his only one, a Boston paper ran a lengthy feature in its Sunday section. Naturally, when Harvard looked sluggish against Holy Cross and lost to B.U. people started wondering. What's wrong with Champi? When Champi quit the squad last week, the amount of coverage he received was not only far out of proportion but almost shamefully unnecessary...
...Saturday, when Harvard routed Columbia, people were surprised. How did they ever do it without Champi? On Sunday, when the credit should have been given to a resilient Harvard team, Champi was given a front page story, and a full page spread in the sports section. Pictures of his heroism, play-by-play of the rally, an elegy or two. Champi doesn't want it. His teammates are being overlooked because of it. It won't happen again, but it should never have happened...