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...can’t stop Brown running back Nick Hartigan. You can only hope to contain...
Brown capitalized on Harvard’s Hartigan fixation with a mix of misdirection and play action, which regularly rendered the bulk of the Crimson’s defensive corps out of position to land a tackle on the actual ball carrier or defend a downfield pass. Bears quarterback Joe DiGiacomo passed for 141 yards in the first quarter alone, 83 of them coming on one long touchdown pass over the top of the secondary...
...when he wasn’t beating Harvard with his arm, DiGiacomo’s legs were more than sufficient. Faking a handoff to Hartigan before tucking the ball and taking off untouched, DiGiacomo opened the scoring with a 53-yard dash to the goal line that stunned the Crimson defenders left in his wake...
...didn’t tackle worth a damn in the first half,” Murphy said afterwards. “Hartigan just kept falling forward and forward...
...there will undoubtedly be some recurrences of that tomorrow at Harvard Stadium. No rusher of Hartigan’s talent can be pinned at the line of scrimmage by even the best of defenses. But lest Estes or Hartigan have any doubt, Murphy guaranteed that for each Brown blocker, there would be one more Crimson defender packed into the box in the hopes of clogging and holes and overwhelming the Bears at the point of initial contact...