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Harvard’s starting quarterback George Lalick was benched in favor of little-used reserve Frank Champi by Harvard Coach John Yovicsin. Champi, a star javelin thrower on the Harvard track team, had only completed five passes all season...
With 3:31 remaining in The Game, Harvard recovered the Bulldogs’ sixth fumble of the afternoon to take control on its own 14-yard line. At that point, Champi engineered the most famous comeback in Harvard history...
Harvard drove the length of the field in dramatic fashion. The Crimson converted on a third-and-18 when Champi bobbled the ball, eluded two Eli defenders in the backfield and lateraled to lineman Fritz Reed who rumbled for 23 yards and the game-saving first down...
...seeming eternity, Champi danced behind the line of scrimmage unable to find an open receiver, but finally drilled a shot to Harvard captain Vic Gatto '69 to bring the team within two points, time having expired. On the final play, Champi defied all laws of probability and again drilled a perfect pass to tight end Pete Varney in the Harvard endzone, culminating one of the most improbable comebacks in all sports history. The next day the banner headline in The Crimson screamed, "Harvard Beats Yale...
...morning after the game, in one of the most extraordinary confessionals ever recorded, Harvard's improbable hero Frank Champi confided that the night before he had a dreamlike premonition of what would happen the next day. For all the eeriness and surrounds both that Harvard-Yale football matchup and this Harvard-Yale presidential contest, perhaps, just perhaps, we can take some measure of comfort in knowing that there is a larger, guiding force that will see us through this contest--hopefully with the same sense of calm that Champi exhibited 32 years...