Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NEW HAVEN, Ct.--As jubilant Harvard fans ripped the uprights off the Yale bowl goalpost, and ecstatic Crimson football team completed a devastating upset, trampling previously unbeaten Yale, 22-7, for the first Crimson win over the Elis since 1975.
The top-rated Yale defense, which has allowed just 523 yds. rushing coming into THE GAME, looked like aged Swiss cheese as Harvard opened its first series after Paul Scheper's kick-off return to the Crimson 25.
It looked like the Harvard drive would end rudely when the Yale secondary picked off a St. John pass, but again the jumpy Yalies were offsides and turned the ball back to Harvard.
With Bulldog fans choking on their pop corn and daiquiris, Yale took the kick-off and started to move for the first time. With John Rogan taking over the signal-calling, the Elis confidently marched down-field. A 29-yd. John Nitti gallop gave Yale a first and 10 at...
Rogan looked like he meant business, hitting split end Dan Stratton with a dazzling bomb at the Harvard 3, but the receiver couldn't hold on. Harvard cornerback, Peter Coppinger, stepped in two plays later to pick off an errant Rogan toss; his tight-rope return along the sidelines to...