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Cult experts warn that the public should not be taken in by the cheerful departures, nor by the notion that it was a small number of people exercising their own free will. "I don't consider it suicide. I consider it murder," says Janja Lalich, a cult expert who has been monitoring Heaven's Gate since 1994, when several distraught parents contacted her with their worries about their missing children. "[Applewhite] controlled it, he called the shots. These people were pawns in his personal fantasy." But Marshall Herff Applewhite has died with his followers. And they seemed so happy...
Crim says, however, that starting quarterbackGeorge Lalich was the inspirational force on theteam. Lalich may not have been able to move theHarvard offense effectively in The Game, but Crimsays that everybody forgets the situation withwhich Lalich had to deal...
...People don't remember that [Lalich] hadsuffered a concussion a week before and had doublevision," Crim says. "Champi came into a situationthat was tailor-made...
Meanwhile, the Harvard offense was sputtering. A strong Yale defense held the Crimson to only 18 yards rushing in the first half, and Lalich could not get his team to advance up the field...
Yovicsin sent Champi in for Lalich, and the back-up responded with a 15-yd. touchdown pass to right end Bruce Freeman '71 with time running down. A bad snap from center spoiled the conversion attempt, and Harvard went into the half down...