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...favorite receiver. Steve Schubert, over the middle for 29 yards, and then went to him again for a touch down. The score was nullified by a penalty, but Harvard obligingly returned the favor with a face mask penalty, and Pennington snuck over from...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: UMass Surprises Football Team, 28-19 | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

Poor field position and a face mask penalty again combined to sink the Crimson, this time permanently. Taking over on the Harvard 44. Pennington took advantage of the penalty and ran the ball in himself after five straight rushing plays...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: UMass Surprises Football Team, 28-19 | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

Harvard looked fat for about five more minutes, and then the end began on the arm of UMass quarterback Peil Pennington. Getting good field position (an advantage UMass enjoyed more often than not) when Harvard's Jim Stoekel was forced to punt from his own 20 against a strong wind. Pennington proceeded to destroy Harvard's secondary...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: UMass Surprises Football Team, 28-19 | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

...both passes to Schubert, Pennington diagnosed a Harvard linebacker blitz and called an audible sending Schubert slanting over the middle, isolating him against Harvard defensive back Barry Malinowski in a man-to-man situation. During the course of the game the linebacker blitz nailed Pennington once for Harvard, while Pennington nailed Harvard for over 150 yards with the slant...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: UMass Surprises Football Team, 28-19 | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

...Harvard, for all its defensive "flexibility," kept blitzing. Pennington kept calling slant-ins, and Malinowski spent the afternoon schasing Schubert. Malinowski was the team leader in tackles with ten, fulfilling a football adage that if the safety is a team's leading tackler, the team's in trouble...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: UMass Surprises Football Team, 28-19 | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

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