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When John McCluskey '66 was named the starting quarterback for the 1964 Harvard football team, the Boston media had a good time poking fun at the University...
...Boston papers often referred to McCluskey as "the first Black quarterback in 300 years of Harvard history...
...wasn't that long," jokes McCluskey, now a professor in the Afro-American Department at Indiana University. "You've got to remember that Harvard has only been playing football since the turn of the century, so it had actually been only 70 or 80 years...
...addition to being the first Black to play quarterback at Harvard, McCluskey also may have been the first to play the position in the Ivy League, although no such statistics are recorded...
...Harvard record for longest run from scrimmage was set by Dick Clasby in a game against Washington of St. Louis in 1952. The 10th longest is held by John McCluskey, who sprinted 82 yards against Massachusetts...