Word: drives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Beatrice working left on pitchouts from Smerczynski, Harvard began to drive upfield. On a second and five from the 47, Smerczynski was sacked and limped off the field. Joe Lahti then entered the game and immediately ossed a 17-yd. bullet that Richie Horner snared with a leaping grab at the sidelines on the Big Red 40-yd. stripe...
...drive then died--again with a Harvard miscue--as Paul Connors fumbled the handoff from Lahti on a slant right. Cornell's Mike Cobb jumped on it at the Harvard 45. The Big Red proceeded to roll once again, racking up big rushing yardage. An incomplete Ryan-to-Decker first-down toss at the Harvard 25 again brought out kicker Rejda for the field goal try. But this time he missed from 32 yards...
...Muha going over from the two on a pitch-out to the right. So with 8:26 remaining in the third stanza, Harvard trailed 20-0 and desperately tried to get some back by going to the air. Suffice to say that the most exciting moment of the drive for the Crimson was the announcement in the press box that this was Bob Cavileer's fiftieth year as the Harvard statistician...
...incomplete pass to Turley in the endzone became a bonanza when Harvard was called for interference and gave the Big Red a first down at the 1. On the nextplay, Weidenkopf went over the top for an airborn score. The Rejda kick capped a 60-yd. six-play drive that buried Harvard 34-0 with 13:11 left in the torture chamber...
Walter Diaz was robbed on what looked to be a sure goal with 8:40 left in the first overtime. After bringing a bounding ball under control in front of the goal, Diaz left-footed a shot that was saved from the net by Weed's horizontal drive...