Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard moved in front with a freak goal after only one minute and 31 seconds of the first half. Tiger fullback Scott Messel leapt into the air to try and clear a corner kick with his head, only to have the ball deflect off his airborne right leg into the corner of his own goal. The referee credited Harvard's Mike Mogollan with the score...
Princeton refused to be deflated by the early setback and pressured the Harvard backs for much of the remainder of the half. Only in the second 45 minutes, after Michael Smith moved back to center half from the right side to replace Frank RiCapito, did the Crimson gain control of midfield and look likely to preserve or increase its lead...
...right side of the Tiger 11--fullback Lasse Brautaset, John Bowen and Touraj Touran--troubled Harvard the most. Brautaset played like a halfback much of the time, sending short passes to Bowen or dribbling clear before sending long balls down the wings. With ten minutes gone, the highly skilled Bowen made a pretty, right-footed dab of a bouncing ball over Peter Sergienko's head before racing down the wing and centering. He and Touran repeatedly worked the ball towards the middle of the field near the Crimson penalty box. Their eforts, however, came to nought...
Harvard had one golden opportunity, besides its goal, in the first half. Mauro Keller-Sarmiento danced a la George Best around left fullback Charles Stillitano and goalie James Brickell but sent his right-footed shot over the cross...
From there, Princeton's potent back-field of Ivy rushing leader Cris Crissy and Larry Van Pelt went to work. Crissy went off right tackle for 9 and wide left for 7. Tiger signalcaller Steve Reynolds moved the ball on an option to the 22 for a first and ten, but two runs by Crissy and an incomplete pass left Princeton with a fourth...