Word: fielded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the game even began, the Crimson knew that it had a battle on its hands. The field- at the bottom of a hill- was not rolled before the game. Consequently, it was wet and muddy, cutting the Crimson's speed and passing ability...
Coach Bruce Munro started his second team in the first period. He wanted to give the first team a chance to see the Bruins in action on the muddy field. Munro had used the same strategy in the 6-0 B.U, rout, but this time the first team did not explode as it had done before...
...outsiders, and insisted: "The people of Roxbury have been living in harmony with the rest of the city for years." This philosophy reassured an electorate that was looking outside the city for answers to its internal problems. With matronly pollworkers suggesting, "Don't forget Louise," she devastated the field...
...more absurd was the fact that the Crimson had a realistic chance of winning the game up until the final minute of play, even though the Bruins humbled Harvard statistically all afternoon. Without gaining even as much as 50 yards total offense, the Crimson had left the field at halftime with a 17-14 lead, and not until it gave Brown the ball twice in the final three minutes of play, was it a beaten team on the scoreboard...
Scoring twice and rambling 86 yards on 13 carries, halfback Richie Gatto led a Crimson rushing attack that plowed through the mud at Brown's Moses Brown Field for 319 yards...