Word: lerro
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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Wasn't this strategy employed against Bucknell? Well, yes, but the Bucknell line is a little bigger than Columbia's and anyway, Bucknell's Bill Lerro was getting his passes off very quickly. Archie likes to wait around and throw long...
Once Bucknell got the ball again, Lerro went back to the airways. He went six for six passing to Kinsey and Mitchell, with Mitchell catching a seven-yarder down the middle for the second Bison score, just over Dockery's desperate leap...
...fumble and an interception later, Bucknell took over at its own 43 and it took just four plays--all passes, all complete--for the Bisons to march 57 yards and score. Lerro threw to Mitchell, to Kinsey, to Mitchell again to the Harvard 25, and to Kinsey, who eluded Dockery's tackle at the 10, sidestepped Mechling and scored. Al Siegfried's Conversion made it 24-21, the way it stayed...
...game wasn't over yet. After the ubiquitious Mechling punted to the Bucknell 21, a Lerro-to-Kinsey pass was picked off by Bilodeau. Three different Bucknell men hit him as he weaved and wobbled on a 21-yard return that brought the fans screaming to their feet and Harvard to the Bucknell...
...defense dug in and Dockery made a goal-line interception of a Lerro pass. Again Harvard marched, with McCluskey at the controls, this time for 54 yards. Leo was the work horse, running 21 yards and catching passes...