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...flag indicated a roughing the kicker penalty on Harvard, a call both late and questionable that gave Penn placekicker Dave Shulman one more chance to ruin what would have been Harvard's biggest comeback in almost 15 years. Shulman, five of 10 on the season going into the game, had come nowhere near the necessary distance on the original 38-yard attempt...
Harvard's freshman team edged the Big Green, 21-20. With seven minutes remaining and the Crimson ahead, 21-14, Harvard fumbled on its 40-yard line. Dartmouth's Ernie Torain scored from the one-yard line after an eight-play drive. But place-kicker Danny Freshman choked in the clutch, missing the extra point which would have tied the game...
...situation wasn't an exact parallel to last year's crucial game at Penn, when a roughing-the-kicker call on Harvard gave Quaker placekicker Dave Shulman a second chance, which he used to beat the Crimson with no time showing on the clock. But the lateness of the call--as Restic saw it--gave the visiting coach that deja vu feeling...
Today's game shapes up to be a cliff hanger, and it could become a battle of the boots, with Army's star place-kicker Craig Stopa or Harvard thunder foot Jim Villanueva kicking the deciding field goal...
...predictable melody. "Face" would serve as a good sound-track for the sequel of Return of the Black Stallion Meets Chariots of Fire. You know, for the beach scene. Although Albrecht shows that his tongue is in cheek when he ends a set of mystical pseudo-poetry with the kicker, "Why don't you piss off," he is not quite as immune from shlock as he would have us believe...