Word: minuteman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yesterday's play was any indication, the squad should have little trouble garnering that berth. For the most part, the Crimson defense, led by the inspired play of Mullen and Captain Ellen O'Neill, shut down a highly potent Minuteman offense. At the same time, the Crimson offense which usually goes into hiding in non-league games showed signs of life...
...more hopeful view. We are arguing instead of fighting, whether at the United Nations, where President Reagan appeared last week, or through the printed statements that rolled off the Kremlin presses in response to Reagan. In this day of cataclysmic weapons, is the pen proving mightier than the Minuteman and the SS-20? Opinions are cautious and contradictory. Still, there has been born in these past chaotic weeks a small idea that more energy, time and wealth are being spent on persuading than on military maneuvering...
UMass effectively put the Crimson away in a roughly 10-minute span of the first quarter, looking nothing like a team that had lost its previous two games by a combined score of 62-13. Minuteman quarterback Jim Simcone capped his first offensive series with a 35-yard bomb to older brother and split end Bob. With Harvard cornerback John Dailey caught turning the wrong way, Simcone hauled it in and sauntered across the line...
...visitors took control again after safety Jack Shay stopped a Crimson drive by knocking down a Chuck Colombo pass at midfield--the first of several times the UMass secondary swatted away Harvard passes. As the Minuteman offensive line proceeded to blast sizeable holes through the defense, running backs Frank Fay and Richard Jenkins took turns with the ball, until Fay took a pitch from Simcone for a one-yard touchdown run with 4:04 left in the period...
Harvard got a single first down, then stalled, 3:32 later, UMass had scored, 4:38 later it was 14:0. Three plays later Crimson quarterback Chuck Colombo threw to Minuteman Troy Turner, who made the score 21-0 with over two minutes left in the first quarter...