Word: champi
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...Champi lines up. He takes the snap andscrambles. The gun sounding the end of regulationfires. The number one receiver on the play isCrim, but the fullback has three Elis ready tobatter him if the ball comes his way. Champireadies a toss to Crim, but pulls his hand back atthe last second. Instead, he scrambles a littlemore before firing a pass to the Crimson'scaptain. Gatto hauls in the football in the cornerof the endzone to cut Yale's lead to two points.Just two points...
...Champi snaps the ball and starts scrambling.He backs up to Yale's 15-yard line before tossingthe pigskin to monstrous tight end Peter Varney.Varney towers over Yale defensive end Ed Frankilnand snags the pass out of the air for Harvard'sversion of The Catch. The Stadium erupts; theCrimson has made the Elis' lead disappear. Harvardbeats Yale...
...Champi was the one player who broughteverything together. He was able to inject instantlife into a team that had not explicitly given upby the third period, but that had conceded thatYale would probably win on that...
...People don't remember that [Lalich] hadsuffered a concussion a week before and had doublevision," Crim says. "Champi came into a situationthat was tailor-made...
Since he faced a lead that the 40,000-plus inThe Stadium did not believe he or anyone couldovercome, Champi had no pressure with which todeal...