Word: gizzi
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Fullback Steve Ernst won the Frederick Greeley Crocker Award as the 1983 squad's MVP, defensive end Mark Mead won the Joseph E. Wolf Award for the outstanding interior lineman, linebacker Craig Uecker won the Henry N. Lamar Award for dedication to the football program and quarterback Greg Gizzi won the Robert F. Kennedy Award for determination and willingness to work...
...nine varsity quarterbacks at the beginning of the season, Gizzi earned the starting job halfway through the year. He proceeded to lead Harvard to a 4-0-1 finish and its second consecutive Ivy co-championship. The Irvington, N.Y. native completed over 56 percent of his passes for 729 yards and rushed for 212 yards...
...then Harvard's mostly moribund passing game caught fire for a moment as Greg Gizzi found Robert Santiago on the Yale six-yard line late in the third period. On the first play of the fourth quarter. Steve Ernst barreled around left end; as was an irresistable force and the Yale defense something less than an immovable object. Soon I was breathing easier, not particularly concerned by Rob Steinberg's trial-and-error place kicking...
...read and enjoy the Eli Propaganda for The Game in the years to come may read more stirring declarations by Giamatti like this year's. Scenes like that of quarterback Mike Curtin being sacked by the Crimson before he can even drop back into the pocket, and of Gizzi mysteriously escaping the embraces of two or three Bulldogs every time he scrambled with the ball--they will contribute to the Eli character...
...same time, if the Crimson falters in front of 70,000 spectators in the Bowl, more than 50,000 of them screaming for an upset, no one will remember how its defense proved itself down the stretch as the best in the league, or how Greg Gizzi came off the bench at midseason to revive the Harvard offense, or how Steve Ernst and Mark Vignali, game in and game out, provided maybe the Ivies' best rushing attack, or how Jim Villanueva supplied the league's most effective kicking game...