Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calling any contest with Columbia a "must" game seems somewhat ridiculous but no one on Harvard's football team is laughing this week. A Loss to Columbia this afternoon a squad generally predicted for the Ivy cellar, would be deeply humiliating and it would signify the beginning of the end for the Crimson's title defense this fall...
...Crimson was angry after that game. The Columbia game was going to mark the beginning of Harvard's second season, the one that really counted. But now with the entire left side of the offensive line either missing or substandard, with grad Drew Czulewicz still unable to play and with two major injuries in the defensive backfield Columbia doesn't look so easy...
...Lions lost heavily through graduation b?? they seem to have retained more quality than most people will give them credit for Columbia lost its opener to Lafayette 36-22, but the Leopards were coming off a 7-3 season and still had plenty of lettermen left...
...Last week the Lions dropped their Ivy opener to Princeton 21-7, but it should be noted that the score was tied at halftime and only a fumble and a freak punt mistake deep in its own territory cost Columbia the game...
Harvard made the mistake of looking past Columbia last year and it almost lost because of that. Only the stiff Crimson defense stopped a lrage drive that would have put Lions within a conversion pass of victory...