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...Yalies, 16-0. Bunny Bob Holz set the tone of the contest by scoring on the second offensive play of the match. Player-coach Bill Lewis returned a short punt to give Leverett six more points and Tony Rothchild finished off the blue and white with a 37-yd. field goal in the third quarter...
Indeed, Mike Lynch's last-minute field goal at the Yale Bowl in '75, a three-pointer which gave Harvard its first, last and only undisputed Ivy football title, seems the final link to a different age, one that never would have permitted Crimson losses to Columbia and Cornell within a month and would have been aghast at the thought that even a victory this afternoon can produce at best a fourth-place finish in the league...
Four plays and five yards later, Lynch connected for the winning field goal, but a paragraph before, our story went sour. Bob McDermott was killed in a tragic fire last summer. Another teammate, Andy Puopolo, died a month after he was fatally injured in a November '76 Combat Zone knifing incident...
Back at the turn of the centtaken hold of Harvard's athletic program, as The Gameapproached its silver anniversary. There was talk ofbuilding a stadium, replacing Soldiers Field's hazardouswooden stands with a more grandiose home for the Crimsongridders; but President Eliot feared the proposed concretearena would lie like a dormant white monster when thefootball fad faded...
Today's game marks the diamond anniversary of thehorseshoe, and it's an understatement to say that a lot ofamazing things have transpired in the last 75 years. Therewas the cold-weather conversion of the field into skatingrinks; there was the modification from horseshoe to oval andback again; there were speeches (Castro) and rock concerts(Baez to Manilow); but most of all there were footballgames...