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...capable quarterbacking is perhaps the most immediate concern. The problem was there last year, of course, when Yovicsin used five players and still never found any one of them to be satisfactory. Two of them, Dave Smith and Frank Champi, have graduated. Two more, John O'Grady and Joe Roda, have quit. That leaves junior Rex Blankenship, an adequate passer who started the Yale game last year, as the only man with experience...
...Roda, John O'Grady, Rex Blankenship, and Dave Smith took turns the rest of the season, but none of them was able to show the consistency necessary for a team to get points. Harvard's passing attack became even more of a laughing stock than it had been (while talented ends Bruce Freeman and Pete Varney had to get their kicks from blocking), and the running simply wasn't good enough to make...
...Roda, John O'Grady, Rex Blankenship, and Dave Smith took turns the rest of the season, but none of them was able to show the consistency necessary for a team to get points. Harvard's passing attack became even more of a laughing stock than it had been (while talented ends Bruce Freeman and Pete Varney had to get their kicks from blocking), and the running simply wasn't good enough to make...
...Crimson quickly got the ball back and the next turning point came when linebacker Ron Kell tackled Roda a yard short of a first down on fourth-and-three in Yale territory...
Martucei's interception and Rick Frisbie's block of a field goal got the ball back twice, but awesome rushes by the Yale line made sure that Roda's desperate efforts to get his team on the scoreboard were not successful...