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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team's first two games, Lalich's strength was his leadership. He scrambled most of the game, evading hordes of Lions on two occasions in the first half, and eventually threw the winning touchdown pass to Pete Varney early in the fourth quarter...
Defensively, Harvard met Columbia's early rushing challenge and beat it back, but had trouble containing the Lions' very talented passer Marty Domres, an accurate short thrower. Columbia's strategy was the strangest part of this day's game...
...attempt to establish a running game and force the Harvard defense to tighten up, thus opening the air waves for Domres's soft flips, Columbia stayed completely on the ground for the first 23 minutes of the game...
...ground game never was effective, so Harvard's front line kept a hard rush on all afternoon. Domres was forced to carry the ball 18 times, with only a very few rushes intentional. Late in the first half, after Gatto and new fullback Gus Crim had scored, Domres passed the Lions to a touchdown, climaxing a 45 yard drive with a pretty 28 yard completion to star end Bill Wasevich...
...senior finished the game with 206 yards, hitting 16 of 21 passes...