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Quarterback Vin Ferrara and tailbacks Eion Hu and Kweli Thompson led the way. Ferrara was 22-32 for 245 yards passing. Hu rushed for 73 yards on 18 carries. And Thompson caught seven passes for 89 yards...
...Crimson got off to a slow start in the game. On the very first Harvard snap of the Murphy coaching era, Ferrara was sacked and fumbled, giving the ball to the Lions. And on the team's second possession, Columbia stopped the Crimson in three downs...
After stopping Columbia on four downs, Harvard mounted another long, steady drive. Beginning from the Crimson 33, Ferrara hit on passes of 6, 12, 5 and seven yards, and Hu made runs of 12 and three yards to take the ball to the Columbia three. There, on third and three, Murphy and Co. went to the pass: Ferrara hit big tight end Matt Gargulinski to put tight to put Harvard...
Columbia roared back, mounting a 14-play drive to halve the score with a touchdown, but, unfazed, Harvard matched the Lion challenge. After a Columbia pass interference penalty erased a Crimson third-and-ten, Ferrara completed passes of eight, five and 18 yards, consecutively, to march the ball to the Columbia 38. There, Thompson took a screen pass from the big quarterback on the right side of the field and danced 38 yards for the score...
Receiving the second-half kickoff on its own 33-yards line, the Crimson offense engineered its fourth-straight touchdown drive. Ferrara completed five of six short passes to take the team to the Lion 31, and Hu took over from there. The junior tailback made four consecutive runs, the last of which was a three-yard touchdown...