Word: gizzi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name is Greg Gizzi, and just five games ago he thought he had been written off by the Harvard coaches. But in Harvard's crucial game against Princeton, Gizzi, a senior, finally showed his stuff, and he has been the Crimson's number one signal caller ever since...
...Gizzi never doubted his ability. The Harvard coaches did. After two pre-season scrimmages in which he started and didn't perform as well as the coach expected, Joe Restic chose Chuck Columbo to play the season opener against Columbia...
Successful at everything else he ever attempted, Gizzi was used to being frustrated in a Harvard uniform. Freshman year he split time at quarterback with Columbo, and the next fall, he was asked to switch to Hanker, because of the Crimson's depth behind the center Gizzi says he felt "lost in the shuffle...
...Gizzi decided to switch back to quarterback this year and to complete with eight others for the starting job. He sat on the bench for the last few games, until the ineffectiveness of Columbo and an injury to Sophomore Brian White gave him a shot Gizzi played well enough against Dartmouth in relief to get a start against Princeton...
...Gizzi knew it was his one last chance to prove to Restic that he really could do the job. Leading the Crimson to a hard tough 28, 26 squeaker. Gizzi won the starting job. Now he is where he has wanted to be for the last four years, leading the Crimson into the 100th Yale game, and says if he had to do it over again, he's glad be chose New Haven over national television...