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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Callinan's success on the ground, which earned him ABC's offensive player of the game award, partially resulted from a new fullback off-tackle play that Harvard coach Joe Restic designed specifically to create holes in Yale's defense...
Dave Cody capped the 13-play, 74-yd. drive with the extra point to give Harvard a 7 to nothing lead. Harvard became the only team all year to score on Yale in the opening quarter, and the only rival to draw first blood...
...penalties proved costly when, on third down and 6 from the Yale 38, St. John hit Callinan with a thread-the-needle aerial down the sidelines and the halfback tip-toed into the end zone with just 25 seconds gone in the second quarter. The 70-yd., 9-play drive ended with Cody missing the PAT, leaving Harvard with an astonishing 13-0 lead...
Harvard looked like it might open up for more jubiliation following the goal-line stand, Callinan taking a second and 7 handoff at the Crimson 7 and bulldozed his way outside to the 40. But Holden called the play back and Harvard could not restart its engine and Millard had to punt from his end zone again, giving Yale the ball on the Crimson...
Crimson magic appeared again as a Ken Hill fumble at the Yale 49 gave the Crimson first and 10. On the first play, St. John threw long for tight end Chuck Marshall, and the Eli secondary dug itself a hole, getting called for interference at the Yale 13-yd. line...