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...Frank Champi is amazed at the "way people remember THAT game...
...line on his way to (what would have been) a touchdown, and Eric Crone, of endzone infamy, but the Crimson has had few, if any, quarterbacks known for their ability to mastermind a last second drive -- with the exception, of course, of 1968 Yale game hero Frank "42 seconds" Champi, a second string quarterback who had never done it before and never did it again...
...went to the Dartmouth game my freshman year, I showed off to my date by predicting which of John Yovicsin's four plays the quarterback would call next. But the quarterback, John O'Grady, a third stringer thrust into the starting role after Yale game hero Frank "42 Seconds" Champi had retired to write poetry and Dave Smith had sprained his ankle running on to the practice field, threw strikes to the Dartmouth linebackers and the Big Green Indians won, 21-10. Dartmouth went on to a championship season, and O'Grady went on to quarterback the Quincy House football...
...came to Harvard stadium as a heavy underdog against Frank "42 seconds" Champi, the last second hero of the '68 Harvard-Yale game, and a Crimson eleven that had not lost since November...
...Harvard band know, as they played "Mickey Mouse" to the B.U. stands, that Harvard's first victim of the season. Holy Cross, had been sandhagged by an undiagnosed epidemic of hepatitis, that one of B.U.'s halfbacks. Bruce Laylor, was a future NFL Rookie of the Year, and that Champi would spend the rest of the season writing poetry in his room? B.U. won, 14-10, and roared off to a 9-1 season. Harvard finished...