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THAT game is of course the 29-29 Crimson "victory" over Yale four years ago. Champi came off the bench to lead a sputtering Crimson offense to a stunning comeback, picking up 16 points in the final 42 seconds of the game...
...Champi doesn't like people to remember him simply at the hero of THAT game. "It's very disconcerting when people know me from that one event, but they don't know any other side of me," he said. "It's a great memory but memories can only go so far. The game really isn't that important in my life...
...years Champi spent in a Harvard football uniform were frustrating ones. Until the Yale game. Champi had seen little action for the Crimson. First-string quarterback George Lalich played all but the final minutes in most of the games. But after leading the Crimson to "the tie" with Yale and a share of the Ivy League crown in his final game of his junior year. Champi was suddenly hailed as the player who would lead Harvard to an undisputed Ivy title...
Neither the team nor Champi made it that far in 1969. After two games, a victory over Holy Cross and a disappointing loss to Boston University Champi quit the team. He said then that he no longer enjoyed football. "I had been thinking about it for two years," he recalled this week. "It was a question of priorities. I felt that I was wasting my falls, and getting all the I could out of Harvard...
That year, Champi remained in Cambridge to work on two papers while his former teammates finished a dismal 3-6 season with an unexciting "O loss to the Ellis in New Haven...