Word: crimsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard CRIMSON touch football team rolled to its 73rd con-ecutive undefeated season yesterday with a 23-2 win over an undermanned and outplayed Yale Daily squad. Behind the passing of quarterback Tom Southwick, brought off the bench in the last three minutes of the game and the hand and moves of Mike Barrett, he Crimeds came from behind to swamp the stunned and previously unbeaten Elis...
...quick start when Ben "Butterfingers" Beach took the opening kickoff and returned it 55 yards for the initial score. Unfortunately for the Crimeds. Beach had run the wrong way and the Bulldogs scored a safety. Beach roared back in the second quarter, however, to score the first Crimson touchdown with a long, 34-yard gallop. He slanted off the right tackle, broke three tackles, and scampered the remaining distance to the goal line to give the CRIMSON a 7-2 halftime edge...
...next three plays went nowhere. Yale quarterback Joe Massey, meanwhile, was showing why he has earned a reputation for being a second-half quarterback, so the Crimson got two more chances before halftime but failed to score...
...Crimson quickly got the ball back and the next turning point came when linebacker Ron Kell tackled Roda a yard short of a first down on fourth-and-three in Yale territory...
...Yardling's 55-goal season output breaks the freshman scoring record of 50 goals set by last year's 10-0 team. At the same time, the Crimson defense allowed a meager five goals, second only to the four-goal season record held by Bill Meyers 1967 team...