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Turnovers and a sub-par kicking game hurt the Crimson Saturday, when a nearly full house watched Harvard drop its third decision in five outings. Harvard quarterbacks threw four interceptions--two each by Ron Cuccia and Don Allard. Punt returner Scott McCabe lost a fumble on a crucial return, giving Dartmouth the ball near midfield and setting up the score which put the game away for the Big Green...
With its defense collapsing, the Crimson watched an early 10-0 lead evaporate. After a 40-yd. Villanueva field goal put the Crimson ahead, Cuccia orchestrated the most impressive Harvard drive of the season, a 13-play, 80-yd. number which gave the Crimson a 10-0 lead at the end of the first quarter...
...last play on the Crimson touchdown drive showed a little bit of the famous multiflex razzle-dazzle. Sitting up on the Dartmouth 21, Cuccia rolled right and then pitched to Callinan on the option. The senior fullback continued to roll, stopped short, and lofted a touchdown pass to Paul Scheper in the deep right corner of the end zone. "Now everybody knows Cal can throw, and that will open things up for us," Restic said...
With the ball on the 21 and Harvard facing a second-and-six situation, Ron Cuccia, rolling right, pitched to Callinan, and the fullback threw a strike over cornerback Charles Williams to Scheper in the right corner of the end zone. Villanueva's PAT made...
Dartmouth added a field goal with 5:21 to go to complete the scoring, and Harvard, with Cuccia and Allard alternating at quarterback, was ineffective in a final drive that ended with a David Fuhrman interception. The loss was Harvard's third in a row to the Big Green...