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Finding replacements for Adedeji, Gilbert, and Faden could be an insurmountable task for Munro but the new offensive line shapes up like this: if Gilbert does not play, junior Mario Gobbo will start at inside left, Tony Van Niel at inside right, Leroy Thompson on left wing and, if Faden sits this one out, Dan Potts on the right...
With 16 minutes to go in the game, Harvard came back to tie the score on a fine individual effort by John Waciuma on a pass from Mario Gobbo. Waciuma faked out a defender, bounced the ball and took the shot on the bounce. The ball went in off the goalie's hands...
Harvard rallied to knot the game at a goal apiece, when left wing Dan Potts, on a quick pass from Mario Gobbo, fired a bullet from 20 yards out. Babson, however, took a 2-1 lead at the half. A Babson corner kick eluded Harvard goalie Peter Zurkow, who tried and tailed to punch the ball out of play. The ball came to the edge of the penalty area and a Babson screen shot resulted in the score...
Gary Byrne's Launcelot Gobbo, wide-eyed and Cockney, gets his laughs, by never pushing for them. His timing is impeccable. And while Byrne's polish doesn't always extend to the other comedians in the cast, there are no actively annoying performances. Whatever the minor actors lack in ability, they do not make up in pretentiousness. That in itself is a blessing these days...
...identified by Lorenzo through her voice only, her comment-- "He knows me as the blind man knows the cuckoo,/By the bad voice." -- is far from the witticism she intends. Her confidante Nerissa, as Marian Hailey plays her, comes over as rather strident. Jerry Dodge tries hard as young Gobbo, and Tom Lacy vastly overplays old Gobbo; it is, anyhow, well-nigh impossible to salvage their scene, which is one of the unfunniest comic scenes ever written by a genius...