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...Saturday, Ron Cuccia will quarterback his first Harvard-Yale game. There's an outside shot that he will quarterback Harvard to its first Ivy title since 1975. But win or lose, the game will close the book on his first season as the Crimson signal-caller, end the testimony for the jury to ponder...
...would have been hard for Cuccia to win his case. "If he had done three times what he's done people would still be disappointed," says McGlone. But tell Ron Cuccia before the season started that he was going to rank dead last in the Ivies in passing, and throw two more interceptions than touchdown passes, and he would have looked as incredulous as he did the day a rival high school, losing, 63-0, refused to leave the dressing room at halftime...
...Game, and the voices of the critics will be stifled. A win in The Game, and Ron Cuccia will leave the dressing room a success. Ron Cuccia's Passing Statistics Columbia 5-13, 65 yards (W, 23-6) Holy Cross 15-27, 219 yards (L, 33-19) Army 8-18, 116 yards (L, 27-13) Cornell 5-13, 50 yards (W, 27-20) Dartmouth 5-15, 45 yards (L, 24-10) Princeton 5-11, 95 yards (17-17) Brown 0-4, 0 yards (W, 41-7) William and Mary 5-7, 114 yards (W, 23-14) Penn...
...Crimson has a few problems passing. Diminutive but slick quarterback Ron Cuccia is too short to be a dropback passer, and has had most of his success of short screens to 1979 Game star Jim Callinan. Though Harvard boasts a pair of strong tight ends--Linus O'Donnell and Bill McGlone--they have accounted for only five receptions all year. Perhaps Harvard coach Joe Restic is saving them as a special surprise for his Yalie counterpart Carm Cozza. Speedy Paul Scheper, the senior wide receiver, has caught only nine passes thus...
Yale fans who have witnessed conventional offense for most of the season will be taken aback by Harvard's quarterback-in-motion play the formation the Crimson uses most frequently to pass. Backup quarterback Donny Allard--agile and strong-armed--takes the snap, former split end Cuccia flares wide. Callinan looks for a screen pass, and referees try to discern if the play is legal. Quite often, the zebras have decided otherwise. Harvard must avoid its perennial propensity for penalties if it is to stay in The Game against the powerful Elis...