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...Rocky Delgadillo intercepted (his fifth of the year) Kemp's first-down pass and Marion then took Harvard to the Dartmouth 12, where Dave Cody kicked a 29-yd. field goal for a 17-3 count...
Following the kickoff, Yale tried a first-down bomb throw by its split end, but Coppinger came up with his second interception of the day and lowered the final Crimson boom on the waning Eli spirit...
...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...
From then on, it was first-down losses or penalties that stifled the Harvard attack, putting young Buchanan into an immediate hole with second and long on almost every drive...
...yard lines from which kickers booted a majority of their field goals last year will become a pit for trench warfare next season. Outside the 30-yard line, in third-and-short and fourth down situations, the interior line will fight it out not only for the first-down yardage, but also for every foot to reduce field goal distance. The three-pointer, in its virtual obsolescence, may become as precious as a touchdown...