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...when, in the third quarter of that fiasco, Cornell's Dave Johnson retrieved a high snap from center on a punt attempt, found an opening down the left sideline and sloshed 75 yards for the game's lone touchdown, more than just Harvard's talent advantage was wiped out. So was its undefeated season, and so was its pride...
Then, Harvard turned the ball over to Colgate on an interception but appeared to have forced the visitors to punt at the Crimson 40 yard line. Instead, Colgate kicking specialist Jerry Andrewlavage threw for the first down out of punt formation. The Raiders moved the ball down closer and finally settled for a short go-ahead field goal from Andrewlavage. The kicker was a sharp thorn in the Crimson's side all afternoon, hitting a 46-yard and a 48-yard field goal later in the game and frustrating the Harvard return specialists with high, deep kickoffs that could...
...Colgate defense kept the home team from getting back into the game twice, and now the Raider offense made sure that Harvard wouldn't get another chance. Another Andrewlavage field goal and a crisp touchdown driver after a good punt return put the contest away...
UMass's other scores--a two-yard jaunt by Billy Coleman in the third quarter and a 20-yard field goal by Dave Croasdale in the fourth--were both tainted. Coleman's courtesy of a shanked Curry punt from the Harvard endzone. Croasdale's thanks to a Brown fumble...
...Crimson's best scoring shot, on the other hand, came late in the third quarter, when, with a 14-0 advantage, the Minutemen botched a punt attempt and gave Harvard a first down on its nine-yard line. Three plays later, the offensive line had caved in again and Brown had fumbled the ball back to UMass...