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QUARTERBACK (1)--Don't expect to know who the quarterback is on opening day, or even three weeks into the season. Last year's eventual number one--Greg Gizzi--didn't even play (let alone start) until the fifth game of the season. Don Allard set the Harvard single-season total offense record in 1982, but it was Ron Cuccia who got the nod on opening day. So whether junior Brian White or senior Dennis Vecchi lines up behind the center on the first offensive play of the year, rest assured that things can change. Look for either White...
Thus it was necessary to watch The Game, an erratic affair in which the opposing quarterbacks spent most of their time scuttling about behind their own lines trying to avoid destruction. Greg Gizzi of Harvard generally succeeded in this effort, and Mike Curtin of Yale generally did not. Penalties and inadvertence often had the effect of causing each team to move 20 or more yards backward, not forward, in a series of downs. Yale steadied briefly in the third quarter and moved determinedly in the customary direction to tie Harvard with a touchdown. When Harvard fluffed the extra point after...
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...
...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...