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Gary Bond made the two-point conversion, and when Sabin Willet blocked a punt and fell on it in the endzone, Harvard owned a 10-0 half-time lead...
...attack was hampered by the strong winds, got no first downs in the half. The team's deepest penetration of the half followed Kirkland's kickoff, when Winthrop moved the ball barely across midfield on an offside penalty against Kirkland. But Winthrop, stalled by a holding penalty, had to punt the ball away...
...convinced Phillips's injury is part of a plot. Finally, late in the fourth quarter, Neal Miller carries the ball to Yale's 30-yard line. Two passes fail and Lynch successfully kicks a field goal. The defense holds, and with time running out for Harvard, fair catches a punt on its own 3-yard line. On the last play Kubacki drops back into the end zone to pass, eludes several Yale tacklers, and calmly steps out of the end zone as the gun sounds. William F. Buckley, disguised as a Vassar coed, vainly tries to kick the drum...
Things didn't look any better when, on the ensuing series, Harvard quarterback Jim Kubacki overthrew two open receivers and managed a one yard gain on third down necessitating a Crimson punt. Harvard fans had witnessed this scenario all too many times before. An underdog Dartmouth squad, super-psyched, outplaying an overanxious Crimson team that was making costly mistakes...
...turning point of the game, however, came in the last 30 seconds of the first half. Dartmouth took over on its own 20 after a Harvard punt. But instead of running out the clock and settling to lick its wounds with a four-point deficit at the half, the Green inexplicably tried to pass...