Word: multiflexed
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...basic reason that Harvard followed a six-game losing streak (the longest since 1951) with a six-game winning streak (longest since 1968) was defense. You can talk about the Multiflex until it rains double-reverses, but defense led Harvard to its victories. Most of the stalwarts were seniors this year, and they exited with a flourish. Coming into the final game against Yale, both the Crimson and the more celebrated Eli defenders had each yielded 124 points in nine games for a 13.8 average. In The Game, Harvard gave up 14 points, almost exactly its average...
This Harvard defense deserves better. Often overshadowed by the more colorful, if less successful, Multiflex offense, the defensive unit played key roles in every Harvard victory this season, and--except at Dartmouth--kept the losses much closer than the offense had any right to expect...
...could it happen? This was the Harvard offense--the exalted Multiflex--and Joe Restic teams are rarely shut out. But this team wasn't only shut out. They were completely dominated at the line, in the air and in the backfield--a regular Marine Corps stomping. Harvard once made it as far as the Yale 24, and by the end of that drive. Steve Flach was punting from the 44. Harvard finished with minus 11 yds. rushing. It was that kind...
...crowd's chosen villain was quarterback Brian Buckley. The senior certainly had an off day in his final college contest, but blaming him exclusively would be an egregious oversimplicifcation. Restic couldn't name one thing that hurt his team most, just "circumstances," and his usual response when defending the Multiflex. "We just couldn't execute...
Indeed they couldn't. Time after time, a play would develop only to have the key variable fail at the last moment. Restic said last night. "The Multiflex was more effective in this game than in any game this year," an odd claim for a shutout. But he conceded the parts of the offense never worked at the same time: a receiver would get open. Buckley would get sacked; a halfback would get the ball and a key block would be missed; and, most obvious to those in the stands, Buckley would miss open receivers...