Word: goals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson dominated play in the second stanza. The forward line of Ferrante, Brynteson, and Sara Fischer fired 14 shots on the beleaguered Colwell. Finally, with ten minutes left, Ferrante tallied the go-ahead goal, making it 1-0 Harvard...
...Bunny Bob Holz set the tone of the contest by scoring on the second offensive play of the match. Player-coach Bill Lewis returned a short punt to give Leverett six more points and Tony Rothchild finished off the blue and white with a 37-yd. field goal in the third quarter...
Indeed, Mike Lynch's last-minute field goal at the Yale Bowl in '75, a three-pointer which gave Harvard its first, last and only undisputed Ivy football title, seems the final link to a different age, one that never would have permitted Crimson losses to Columbia and Cornell within a month and would have been aghast at the thought that even a victory this afternoon can produce at best a fourth-place finish in the league...
...does not imply the contest we are about to recall, the 100th anniversary of the Harvard-Yale tong war, the meeting which was decided when Lynch made a football look like a wobbly duck yet still got it to travel the required 26 yards up and barely over the goal posts...
Four plays and five yards later, Lynch connected for the winning field goal, but a paragraph before, our story went sour. Bob McDermott was killed in a tragic fire last summer. Another teammate, Andy Puopolo, died a month after he was fatally injured in a November '76 Combat Zone knifing incident...