Word: handoffs
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...second period Buchanan entered the game with the Minutemen leading 3-0. His first handoff to fullback Al Altieri resulted in a fumble that set up a UMass score. The second exchange also was fumbled. Not an auspicious beginning. "We tried to switch something on that first play," he continued, "We had a missed communication in the backfield in both cases, and the backs that were getting the ball thought they were supposed to be blocking." "That can't happen to you if you want to keep up morale," Buchanan said after the game...
Following the ensuing kickoff, Buchanan missed again, this time on a handoff to Paul Connors. Cornerback Bob Manning's recovery again gave UMass the ball, but the Harvard defense asserted itself and he stalled the Minutemen, allowing the half to whimper away uneventfully...
Harvard scored the first of two opening-quarter touchdowns when senior halfback John Hollingsworth took home a St. John handoff from one yard...
...Elis toyed with the ball for 12 final plays, just under six minutes of possession that ran out the last football for 1978. Perhaps if they had another shot at it... If only Harvard had made another field goal against Brown... If only there had been a better handoff on the Princeton five-yard line... If only it hadn't rained against Cornell... in all just 20 points more...
...Clasby his Paul Crowley with a scoring connection that closed the gap to 14-7. From there, the Crimson pulled off the unexpected. Two players who had gained only late-season varsity recognition did the damage, John Ederer taking a fake handoff for an 83-yd. scoring romp, and Fred Drill running 20 yards with an interception that put Harvard ahead...