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Quarterback John McCluskey, with the ball on the UMass two-yard line, kept the ball himself and swept right end. He outsprinted the whiteshirted defenders, raced to the goal line, and flipped the ball away in jugilation...
...official's hands went up to signal the touchdown, but field judge Bernie Burke was calling it back. It wasn't a touchdown, he said: McCluskey had thrown the ball away before he crossed the goal line, and center Bernie Dallas had hopped on the ball for UMass. It was Massachusetts" ball on their own one-yard line...
What appeared to be a curse turned out to be a blessing, as McCluskey, unable to risk throwing the ball so deep in his own territory, gave it to Leo Swift instead. Swift took it all the way to the Elis 35-yard Swift took it all the way to the Elis 35-yard the one. But Gary Halpern's run for two points after fell a yard short, and the Crimson still trailed...
This was the second time Harvard had tried its passing game, and this time it had been even more disastrous Valiante's score was set up by an interception of a McCluskey serial. Tracy Whitaker picked off the toss on the Crimson 45 and ran it back to the 22, where three runs put Valiante in position for his score...
...McCluskey kept the team on the ground and marched them to a fourth and one situation on the Eli nine. From there Swift took it all the way for the lead touchdown after three minutes of the last period...