Word: penns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look like the worst rout in these parts since the winter of 1777, no one so much as sneezed when Quaker placekicker John Dwyer booted the extra point wide left on the second touchdown. In fact, though, Dwyer's careless miscue was to make the difference in determining Penn's second-half strategy to push all-out for a touchdown--a strategy that failed three times...
After a 15-yd. pass to Polillio and a 15-yd. roughing call on the ensuing tackle put Harvard at the Penn 15, Brown decided to strike quickly for six. And quickly he did, rolling right and rifling a bullet across his body to split and John MacLeod, who had curled inside an umbrella of three defenders right at the goal line...
Then came the first odd incident of the day. A 30-yd. Bosnic field goal attempt with 2:57 to go in the half sailed into the arm of Penn's Kevin Weir instead of through the goalpost. Two-and-a-half minutes later. Quaker Dan Huber killed a desperation Harvard rally by picking off a Brown aerial at the Penn 14-yd. line...
Here comes odd incident number two. Instead of running the clock out. Roland pitched the ball wildly, and Terry Trusty gladly pounced on it at the Penn 10. Bosnic failed to fluff it this time, skying the ball through the uprights with 0:04 left...
...oddest stuff was yet to come. Consider, for example, a third quarter in which the Harvard offense ran off just seven plays for no first downs. But Penn failed to score, owing mainly to penalties and poor execution despite their dominance in possession time...