Word: drives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Working outside to Al Altieri, Jim Callinan and Jon Hollingsworth, quarterback Burke St. John put together Harvard's best sustained ground drive of the season...
Dave Cody capped the 13-play, 74-yd. drive with the extra point to give Harvard a 7 to nothing lead. Harvard became the only team all year to score on Yale in the opening quarter, and the only rival to draw first blood...
...looked like the Harvard drive would end rudely when the Yale secondary picked off a St. John pass, but again the jumpy Yalies were offsides and turned the ball back to Harvard...
...penalties proved costly when, on third down and 6 from the Yale 38, St. John hit Callinan with a thread-the-needle aerial down the sidelines and the halfback tip-toed into the end zone with just 25 seconds gone in the second quarter. The 70-yd., 9-play drive ended with Cody missing the PAT, leaving Harvard with an astonishing 13-0 lead...
Yale went into a two-minute offense looking for a last-second score to close out the half. Matt Sabetti sucked the steam out of the Eli drive when he sacked Rogan for a 7-yd. loss at the Crimson 46. Two plays later, the Harvard front line smothered Rogan back at the Eli 45 to give Yale a fourth and 27 with...