Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after an initial period of shaky play, the varsity took charge of the contest and was never seriously challenged. The Crimson's defensive work was excellent. The line followed Penn's plays well, holding the Quakers to 116 yards on the ground. The pass defense kept Penn's completion percentage down to 4 out of 14 passes for 89 yards, 52 of which came on a single play from Tom Twitmyer to Parker Jacoby in the opening quarter to set up Penn's only touchdown...
...running of Boulris and the passing and play calling of Johanson were the entire offense for Harvard. Boulris picked up 150 yards of the Crimson's 173 yard total in 22 plays, for an average of nearly seven yards of carry, and Johanson completed 9 out of 17 passes for a total of 84 yards...
After Johanson's pass to Hauge gained nothing, Boulris went around right end for seven yards to the Penn 17. On the next play, he moved to the right side again, and after appearing to be trapped several times avoided the entire Penn secondary to score at one minute of the second period...
...middle of the third quarter. The drive started when Bob Foster intercepted a Penn pass on the Harvard 36. The Crimson drove steadily, on fine running by Boulris--28 yards--and Don Gerety--16 yards--to the Penn three yard line. There Johanson called his one obviously bad play of the afternoon. He pitched deep back to Gerety at the ten and the right halfback was stopped by Jacoby, the outstanding player of the day for Penn, for a seven yard loss...
...orchestra gave its guest soloist full support throughout. Except for some bad moments at the violin entrance, resulting from the fast tempo taken in the ritornello, Poto followed the soloist with amazing precision. While the orchestra did not play with as much expressiveness, rhythmic drive, and intensity as it might have, it at least supplied vigor and accuracy. The winds lapsed into insecure entrances and poor intonation at the beginning of the second movement, but their solos were generally good, especially those of oboist Michael Palmer. Miss Martzy received an immediate standing ovation at the end--a rare event...