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Bilodeau ran the play to the right, pitching to Wally Grant for a six-yard gain. He came back to the left and let Dave Poe carry for 12 yards to the Massachusetts seven...
...didn't look rusty. He let Dave Poe and Pat Conway pick up a first down on the UMass 25 and then turned to the play that had worked best for McCluskey: the option sweep, with the quarterback either carrying the ball around end himself or pitching back to a trailing halfback if the traffic is rough...
...swing pass misfired, losing six yards, but Bilodeau had the play that would work. It started out looking like the option again, but Poe cut back over center, Bilodeau spun and gave him the ball, and the hole in the bamboozled UMass defense was big enough for a truck. Poe had clear sailing to the two-yard line and he carried two UMass defenders into the end zone with him for the score...
...didn't this time--in fact Mac didn't make a ball-handling bobble all day. On the long drive he let Poe and Conway do most of the work, with Grant a decoy. Neil Curtin and John Hoffman were tearing giant holes in the right side of the UMass line and another constant soft spot turned up over right guard...
...Whelchel's play, fine as it was, should not overshadow the unusually good first game Harvard played. McCluskey winding up with 109 yards, Poe with 71, Grant 55 and Conway 35. Yovicsin has found a wonderful fullback in Conway, a big, fast guy whose vicious blocks cleared the way for the end sweeps...