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...mystery remains unsolved. One of the critical plays of the game came in the middle of the third quarter. Yale had driven to the Harvard nine-yard line where it had a fourth and two. McCarthy faded to pass and was dropped for a six-yard loss by Jim Driscoll and Hoffman. But the Eli coach John Pont claimed the Crimson has 12 men on the field. The officials disagreed, but only the movies will tell for sure...
...together long marches, the best of them an 89-yarder that accounted for the first touchdown. Never gaining more than nine yards in a play, quarterback John McCluskey, fullback Stan Yastrzemski, and Pat Conway, a half-back for the first time in his varsity career, chewed off the distance in four-yard plunges. They got immmeasurable help from a fourth-down penalty on Brown after the Bruins forced Harvard to kick. McCluskey set up the score with a nine-yard sweep and scored by himself, over right guard...
Harvard came back again when Bob Laughton fumbled the kickoff and Ulciekas recovered at the Bucknell 39. Nine plays later it was Harvard 21, Bucknell 17, with Bilodeau flipping a nine-yard pass to Leo for the score. Leo took the ball at the five, slanting across the middle and just reachjed the corner of the end zone before two Bisons thraw him out of bounds...
...stopped the Crimson attack and Whelchel had the ball again. He threw to Walt Morin, the 240-pound end who was carrying defenders three yards after they caught him, then to fullback Mike Ross, then to Meers on a fourth-down play that put the ball on Harvard's nine-yard line. One play later Whelchel took it in himself, rolling out of the hands of a defensive lineman and into the end zone...
...entire first quarter. Suddenly he discovered his own right arm and started picking the pass defense apart with the kind of short, hook-and-slant passes that a 5-4 defense is supposed to be vulnerable to. Only a fumble by Phil DeRose at the nine-yard line stopped what seemed like a sure UMass touchdown as the second quarter ended...