Word: gatto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gatto...
...Gatto was the captain of the 1968 Harvard football team. Gatto, now the coach at Davidson University in Davidson, N.C., remembers The Game not for its plays, not even for Harvard's dramatic comeback--the Crimson scored 16 points in 42 seconds to tie the score--but for the spirit that enveloped the team. An indefinable feeling. A restless excitement. A unity...
...felt great about The Game," Gatto says. "But there's a sense among my friends that we'd like to celebrate what was going on then, not the details of The Game...
Twenty years later, it is time to remember. Remember Gatto catching an eight-yd. touchdown pass as time ran out to put Harvard within two points of a tie? Remember Pete Varney catching the two-point conversion with no time on the clock that gave the Crimson its mythical, magical tie? Remember the Ivy League championship Harvard and Yale shared because they came out even in The Game...
...three players who were active in the anti-war movement," Gatto says. "And we had Pat Conway, a Vietnam veteran. Pat had done what he had to do and he was honored for that. Pat had a lot of respect for the guys who were trying to end the war because he had a lot of friends who were dying...