Word: oberg
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...Crimson did just that, running up its second-highest point total of the season and blanking the big but unpolished Terriers for the first 65 minutes of play. With captain Keith Oberg back at scrum half after two games at hooker, the squad registered its second consecutive stellar performance...
Seventeen minutes into the game, Oberg displayed the type of heads-up play which makes him so valuable. With Harvard leading 3-0 on Charlie Bott's first of two field goals, the ref called a penalty on B.U. deep in Terrier territory along the right sideline but let play continue until B.U. controlled the ball on the other side of the field. As the Terriers sauntered back, the ref put the ball in play and Oberg alertly picked it up and ran over the endline untouched for his first try of the season...
...lacked unity because of the changes in the forward line," captain Keith Oberg said after the game. The weakened Crimson line could not push the ball cleanly back to new scrum half Tim Endicott to start the unusually potent attack...
Twice, on up-and-under kicks by Bott and Ed Thompkins, Harvard threatened within five yds. of the Brwon endline. THE NOTEBOOK: Regular scrum half Oberg returned to his old hooker position to replace the injured Rick Kief. Kief, who bruised his knee at wrestling practice, should be back in action next week. Former club president Jim Tovey filled in solidly for vacationing prop Bo Wilster-man. The squad missed "Doc" Halliday at second row (especially on lineouts) out with a hematoma on his knee...
Bott continued his alert play and pinpoint kicking in the second half. After half-scrum Keith Oberg created a break to the narrow side of the field, Bott punted the ball high in the air, raced under it and caught it and continued down the sideline over the endline...