Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty years ago this weekend, a Yale senior defensive back named Edward Franklin let a pass fly into a Harvard receiver's hands just inside the goal line with no time left on the clock, and watched in horror as history was made. A famous Crimson headline reported the results: "Harvard Beats Yale...
...remember exactly who won those games. But both of us were more than willing to conspire to create drama. Always it came down to the final play of the game, the clock running out as dinner time approached. It always ended with a goal line stand, a fourth down and one situation, and the inevitable two-point conversion effort. And then the fight song, and the finger jabbing. And then game day would return that next afternoon...
Twenty years later, it is time to remember. Remember Gatto catching an eight-yd. touchdown pass as time ran out to put Harvard within two points of a tie? Remember Pete Varney catching the two-point conversion with no time on the clock that gave the Crimson its mythical, magical tie? Remember the Ivy League championship Harvard and Yale shared because they came out even in The Game...
Quarterback Tom Yohe, noted for his famous first halves, starts The Game with a cast wrapped on his right leg. He throws a pair of first-half touchdowns but is re-injured as the clock expires at the end of the second quarter...
Last year, it almost happened, but Harvard's alarm clock went off with 10 minutes left in the final period. Princeton took some seats in the stands and watched the Crimson storm back with three goals to tie the game...