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Most of the players considered the Big Green's fourth-quarter time consuming drive to the Crimson's five-yard line as the turning point of the game...
...Cross and Brown, an excellent second leg by Al Ruby gave the Varsity a lead it never relinquished. All three runners were bunched closely together at the end of the first 440 yards, but Ruby's spurt and the loss of a baton by the second Holy Cross runner gave Harvard a five yard lead. Flint was pushed slightly in the final hundred yards, but maintained the same five-yard advantage as he breasted the tape...
Suspense mounted in the second half when Pete Harwood dropped back to punt for the Jayvees on his own five-yard line. Freshman Howie Reed broke through to block the kick with such force that the ball bounded through the end zone before any player could touch it, and the Lamarmen...
...double-shift was the most famous example of the last. Based on the revised ruling that a team was offside the minute one of its linemen moved ahead of the ball, regardless of whether there was any play, it drew five-yard penalties from more than one angry team. A powerhouse Pennsylvania team would itself up and then down one afternoon in 1942 trying to catch up with Harlow and the double-shift. Dick always refused to admit, of course, that the shift was designed to pull the opposition offside...
...George Allen is a regular card. One of his favorite stories is about the time he was captain of a Cumberland University football team, beaten 222-to-0 by Georgia Tech. George likes to say that he made Cumberland's best run -"I only got thrown for a five-yard loss...