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Frank Champi, the hero of last year's Yale game and the number one quarterback for the Crimson this fall, has quit the team. Rumors that he was considering quitting had been circulating for the past week, and Champi confirmed them last night...
Harvard's most pressing problem so far has been quarterbacking and now the Crimson is without its number one signal caller. Champi's quitting does make the problem of who's going to quarterback a bit less complicated for coach John Yovicsin, however...
...fourth down at the Harvard 38, there was one minute and two seconds left to play, and even worse, Harvard was behind, 13-10. There was one consolation-the Crimson had the ball. The press box people, strange species that they are, were yelling for Richie Szaro, the boy from Brooklyn, who was recruited by a Kennedy. They wanted a 65-yard field goal, figuring the chances of scoring were better. But then there was Frank Champi, and percentage would have been against John Yovicsin taking him out. Think if Yovicsin had taken him out at that same point...
...huddle broke, and the Crimson line came out and lined up noses with five phys. ed. majors, five big phys. ed. majors. The rest is history, mostly B. U. history. The Terriers had never beaten a local team, so this was certainly a treat. They had played at least a minor part in making it possible for Harvard to have its second worst day of total offense in the part in the past twelve years. It was the greatest win of Larry Naviaux's life, and maybe while he was being smothered on his own 30 yard line by three...
...Editors of the CRIMSON...