Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YORK-There was a suspicious aura surrounding this game. Was Columbia as bad as Penthouse said it was in ranking the Lions among the 20 worst college football teams in America? Was the Crimson passing attack in for a severe letdown with the departures of Harvard record-holding quarterback Larry Brown and others, leaving untested Burke St. John at the offensive reins? Would the rushing attack be woefully undermanned without the services of the speedy Ralph Pollilio? Should the stands at ancient Baker Field be condemned as unfit for human habitation as much of the neighboring South Bronx has been...
There still is some question as to whether Harvard's skill or Columbia's ineptitude was responsible for the outcome. But as J.S. Mill so aptly put it: "We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still." It was a little of both...
...Columbia gained no ground on the resulting possession; and when the Crimson reclaimed the ball, St. John moved the team impressively for 50 yards before a fumble precluded any scoring. In all, Harvard controlled the ball for more than ten minutes of the scoreless first period as St. John completed three of his next six passes including two sizzling zips to the elusive Rich Horner that accounted for 55 yards...
This was the beginning of a 19-point quarter for the Crimson. The defense kept Columbia off the board, and with less than six minutes in the half, Duke Millard caged the Lions at their own seven with a lofty 64-yd. punt...
With linebacker Bob Woolway applying pressure (as he did all afternoon), Columbia quarterback Bob Conroy lofted a prayer that found its answer in the arms of hulking Crimson defensive end Dave Otto, who lumbered the ten yards to the endzone...