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...when Cuccia found his injury was serious enough to keep him out of practice this past week. Coach Joe Restic had no reservations about starting Allard...
...work to Donnie at this time," Restic said yesterday. "It's never a luxury [to have two capable quarterbacks]. You have to have that second guy who you know can play for you. If we had moved one of those people out of there [the oft-suggested move of Cuccia back to wide receiver], we'd be in trouble right...
Allard will be running the Multiflex a little bit differently than Cuccia would this afternoon ("We adjust it to play to Donnie's strengths," Restic says), and hoping to move the ball on the ground against a tough UMass defense. Just because coach and quarterback are hoping to run effectively against the Minutemen, however, don't think the Crimson offense will be featuring a Callinan-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense. "I'm not afraid to throw the ball on first down," Allard says, and you can bet he will, especially off of a lot of play-action fakes...
...game, Harvard quarterback Burke St. John was injured early in the second quarter, leaving the Crimson without a reliable signal caller. Today, quarterback Ron Cuccia will be sidelined with a bruised rib suffered in last week's win over Columbia, but this year, Coach Joe Restic can count on Don Allard to come off the bench and do a job that St. John's subs couldn't handle...
Harvard, on the other hand, sustained relatively few debilitating injuries in its opener with Columbia. Cuccia's rib was expected to heal in time for him to play this afternoon, but as it turned out, he was unable to practice all week. But last Saturday. Allard replaced Cuccia in the second quarter and completed five of nine passes for 72 yards and two TDs. If the Columbia game was any indication, the senior back-up should have little trouble with his first starting assignment, although the presence of UMass cornerback Dwayne Lopes (two interceptions last week) and third-team...