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...Bobby Leo, who's now with the Patriots, took a pitch-out from Rick Zimmerman and scampered around the right end for five yards. A fancy double handoff and Vic Gatto's power moved the ball another seven yards...
With first and ten, big Bobby Leo exploded through a mass of tacklers, reversed down the side, and outran a horde of tacklers all the way to the Dartmouth 1, where he was caught. But he still couldn't be stopped, and Leo fell across the line to score after running 64 yards. Jim Babcock kicked the extra point to make it a 7-0 game...
Opening the second half Harvard showed it had the depth to play four quarters of rough football. Leo and Gatto took turns pounding out yardage. Fourth down and just 1/2 a yard to go at midfield, Gatto took a handoff and headed for a right end sweep. The Green defense held fast and threw him for a loss...
Fighting for its Ivy League life the defense forced the Green to punt, and Harvard took over with 9:29 remaining. Leo and Gatto hammered out yards; Zimmerman skillfully mixed pitch-outs and passes for more. One more pitch-out at the 3 to Vic Gatto, and Harvard...
...Leo had carried 20 times for 173 yards. Gatto gained 102 in 19 tries. And the defense was superb. By winning this game Harvard seemed to have wrapped up the Ivy title. Yet later in the season Princeton upset Harvard, and we had to settle for a three-way tie for the Ivy crown...