Word: quarterback
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Rose grew up in Mililani, Hawaii. He picked up football in the ninth grade, playing backup quarterback and defensive back. Although Rose won the starting job as junior, his high school experience was extremely uncommon for a Division I college starter...
Rose showed glimpses of brilliance during his freshman year and watched from the sidelines as Rich Linden '00 orchestrated the offense. As a sophomore, Rose spent most of the season nursing injuries and again remained outside the limelight, as Linden and Brad Wilford '00 battled to be the starting quarterback...
With the graduation of Linden and Wilford, Rose was eventually recognized due to his team's high-powered offensive passing scheme. This season, Rose would often throw the ball 70 times a game, and though the wins did not always follow in turn, his skill as a big-time quarterback developed...
...Yale football team was favored, though only slightly. Their legendary quarterback, Brian Dowling, had never lost a football game in which he started. Today Dowling is best known as the rabidly Republican comic strip character BD, in Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury. Trudeau was an undergraduate at Yale at that time. The Yale football team was also lead by Calvin Hill, who later helped the Dallas Cowboys to a Super Bowl victory, and whose son Grant Hill is now a star NBA basketball player...
...suddenly, the unthinkable happened. Harvard cornerback Rick Frisbie '71 tackled Calvin Hill with such jarring force that Hill fumbled. Harvard took over, still trailing by 16 points. Harvard coach John Yovison astounded the fans with a daring decision--he inserted third-string quarterback Frank Champi '70 into perhaps the most most high-pressure situation in Ivy League sports history. The decision proved not only bold, but prescient. Champi, though he had played but a few minutes in his entire Harvard career up to that point, methodically picked apart the Yale defense and reached the endzone with a touchdown toss. Forty...