Word: leos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passing of tailback Ron Landeck to Cashdollar had given Princeton a 14-0 first-half lead, but Harvard cut the lead to eight points and was moving toward a second touchdown early in the fourth quarter. Behind the running of Wally Grant and Bobby Leo, the Crimson ground out yardage from its own 39 to the Princeton...
...abortive drive was typical of the Crimson's perfor- mance most of the afternoon. Leo and Grant were spectacular. Leo, who had not been expected to play because of a hamstring pull, gained 84 yards on 18 carries. Grant ran 22 times for 76 yards. Yet only once--on their touchdown drive in the third quarter--did the Crimson penetrate Princeton's 30-yard line...
After the kickoff, Harvard began to show flashes of that brilliant running which was supposed to lead the Crimson to the Ivy championship. On nine straight running plays. Harvard moved 37 yards to the Tiger 30. And then--catastrophe. McCluskey made a bad pitchout to Leo, and the ball bounded past the junior halfback. Leo tried to pick it up, and it kept rolling. After a succession of bobbles by both teams, Princeton finally recovered the ball on the Crimson...
Midway through the third quarter, Harvard scored its first touchdown in a month after its best sustained drive of the season. The longest gain on the march was an 11-yard run by Leo, but Harvard's backs were virtually unstoppable. Leo, Grant, and Choquette repeatedly hammered out six or seven yards at a crack through big holes in the Tiger line...
...period, Leo went over right guard from the five for a touchdown. Maury Dullea's conversion was off to the left, but Harvard still had a chance to gain a tie--until Sadoski's incomplete pass a few minutes later...