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...field, reserve signal-caller Frank Champi leads an offense missing captain Vic Gatto and starting halfback junior Ray Hornblower because of injuries...
With the ball on its own 12-yard line, the Crimson gets a drive going with a 17-yard gain on a reverse. A holding penalty erases the Elis' sack of Champi on the next play, and the quarterback from Everett. Mass. keeps the drive going when he finds junior Bruce Freeman for 17 more yards...
After an incomplete pass and a sack, however, Champi faces an imposing third and 18. As the play develops, fans in the stands, players and coaches on the sidelines begin to realize that something special is happening. Champi scrambles and eludes the Yale pass rush before lateraling the ball in the general direction of a Harvard player. The player who picks up the ball is tackle Fritz Reed. He gathers the bouncing sphere and makes his way 23 yards, just inside Yale...
...Crimson cuts the Elis' lead to 10 points when Champi passes to Freeman for the score on the next play. Harvard needs the two-point conversion, and when Varney fails to catch Champi's pass, it looks as if Harvard's score will turn out to be mathematically futile. But the officials call pass interference on Yale and Harvard gets another chance. This time senior fullback Gus Crim plows his way in for the conversion...
...Champi became immortalized as one of the greatest heroes in Harvard sports history, as the Crimson's headline of the next day blared, "HARVARD BEATS YALE...