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...quarter interception--had stickum on his hands and snapped the ball high over Flach. After Harvard's first possession in the second half, Jeff Lawrence's high snap resulted in Flach's punt being blocked and recovered at the Crimson goal line. But the gridders buckled down, tripping Crusader fullback Doug Pietrick for a one-yd. loss and then forcing a fumble which right tackle Tim Palmer recovered...
Also, junior fullback Jim Callinan, hero of The Game last year and semipermanent invalid, will play after sitting out most of the Columbia game with a badly bruised shin. Callinan and Connors, both backs of considerable--if mostly unrealized--talent should join Tom Beatrice in the backfield and give Buckley every opportunity to take complete control. Of the injured list, Restic said, "We're better off than we were a week...
...ball did happen to get through, Jeannie Piersiak, Harvard's center fullback and definitely a goalie's best friend, seemed to be everywhere at once, blocking balls and quickly sending them back into the offensive zone...
Elliott received credit for the first Harvard goal, when her own cross-pass out over the middle to Kelly Gately was deflected by Tufts' fullback Jodie Freeman over the goal line at 5:55 of the first half. Aside from her goal, Elliott was on the ball in the offensive zone all afternoon...
...Crimson's second goal, at 41:39 of the first half, came as the result of some nice moves down the left sideline by winger Laura Mayer. When Mayer crossed the ball in front of the net, where Crimson right wing Cat Ferrante was waiting, another Tufts' fullback, Heather Sibbison, slid to block the ball and ended up sliding it into the goal...