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Harvard does not exactly attach world-shattering significance to beating Yale-or anyone, for that matter. I don't think many people in Cambridge walk around believing that Frank Champi salvaged the 1968-69 academic year with his 42 seconds worth of athletic bravado. But then, in retrospect, the 1968-69 academic year was probably a lost cause to begin with...
...years ago this morning, Frank Champi was a very normal red-blooded American boy form Everett, much like ourselves. Now he's legend, another Frank Merriweather, another Cap'n Crunch. What Linda Lee Danvers-Supergirl-did for Midvale, Frank has done for Everett, and for Harvard. Frank is gone now, but his spirit lingers on ("Spirit of America," Beach Boys, 1963), and when John Yovicsin sends his boys out on the field today it'll be with the instructions "Win this one for Frank...
...course, there have been exceptions. Frank Champi came on in the last minutes against Yale to salvage a preposterous 29-29 tie, but another quarterback directed the Crimson to that final confrontation of undefeated teams...
George Lalich had quarterbacked eight straight victories for Harvard. Only in the direst situation was he replaced, and Champi's performance can only be termed miraculous...
...Frank Champi here in the Harvard locker room waiting for the Crimson to come in off the field, We'll be talking to coach John Yovicsin, who had hoped to gain his 75th Harvard victory today, and maybe to some of his players...