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...Frank Champi says that he is not the type to look back on his memories of Harvard with "tears and goose bumps." He doesn't follow the football games closely anymore and only casually mentioned that he "might" be at THE game today...
...Frank Champi the best thing about THAT 29-29 tie in his junior year was that at helped to justify all of the long days of practice and the times he was "down" because of football. "You have to put the Yale game into perspective," he said
...root of the Elis carvled their press clippings late Harvard Stadium, and for 59 minutes they looked like the 18th ranked team in the nation. But in 43 seconds, an unknown named fresh Champi did what the entire Ivy League had been unable to do for two seasons-he destroyed the legend of Brian Dowling...
Comparisons with Jesus Christ are tiresome, but consider--Frank Champi. A poor boy from Everett, Frank was maligned by many. "Sure," they'd say, "Frank's good with a javelin, but so was Tarzan; and you wouldn't want Tarzan calling signals for Harvard." But Frank stuck to it, buoyed by a simple faith that there was a power higher than Nathan Pusey and the Crimson sports page combined. And so on that fateful day, Frank suited up as usual in Dillon Field House, dutifully applying Dr. Wood's Miracle Splinter Resister to the rear of his uniform. And Frank...
...question is, where is the spirit of Frank Champi today? You know it's not down in Row A at the goal line; Frank was a class ahead of us so he should be closer to the five. Perhaps that spirit is circulating through uniform number 19. The scenario is unrolling before me now as I listen to the account of Champi's final pass to Pete Varney...