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Fullback Steve Ernst won the Frederick Greeley Crocker Award as the 1983 squad's MVP, defensive end Mark Mead won the Joseph E. Wolf Award for the outstanding interior lineman, linebacker Craig Uecker won the Henry N. Lamar Award for dedication to the football program and quarterback Greg Gizzi won the Robert F. Kennedy Award for determination and willingness to work...
...Ernst led the team in rushing (761 yards), scoring (38 points) and punt returns (15 for 109 yards). The Clinton, Mass native started the season at wingback, switched to tailback for the Dartmouth game, then moved to fullback for the remainder of the season. He caught eight passes against Brown...
...then Harvard's mostly moribund passing game caught fire for a moment as Greg Gizzi found Robert Santiago on the Yale six-yard line late in the third period. On the first play of the fourth quarter. Steve Ernst barreled around left end; as was an irresistable force and the Yale defense something less than an immovable object. Soon I was breathing easier, not particularly concerned by Rob Steinberg's trial-and-error place kicking...
...Bowl, more than 50,000 of them screaming for an upset, no one will remember how its defense proved itself down the stretch as the best in the league, or how Greg Gizzi came off the bench at midseason to revive the Harvard offense, or how Steve Ernst and Mark Vignali, game in and game out, provided maybe the Ivies' best rushing attack, or how Jim Villanueva supplied the league's most effective kicking game...
...Crimson can count on Ernst to help do the same 50 years later...