Word: season
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AFTER the 1968 Harvard football season, the Harvard Club of Boston gave a dinner for the first undefeated Crimson team in 50 years. George Lalich was asked to speak and he told the story of how he became the starting varsity quarterback...
George won the starting position at quarterback, but for the pre-season games it looked almost as if Big Hole might have done better. With raw rookies trying to fill the voids left by injured veterans like John Tyson and Dan Wilson, the Crimson first unit bumbled through a 16-7 loss to a weak New Hampshire team...
After the Holy Cross game the Crimson began to roll. Week after week the victories piled in, each more surprising than the last. The key to any undefeated season is not to think about it. Take each game as it comes and play your best football. For the Harvard eleven this was easy. Each Saturday they were faced with a challenge, and no defeat could have been considered an upset...
Pennsylvania, too, was living an impossible dream, and a crowd of 2,000 expected a tight game on October 28 when the Quakers met the Crimson. But the potential of the Crimson, so obscure in pre-season exhibitions, was again apparent, though again not its limits. What was supposed to be another tight game, a possible defeat for Harvard, ended in a rout. The Quakers went home after a 28-6 shellacking and there wasn't much to drink to in the Penn fraternities...
...most perfect ending to a perfect season. It was the Red Sox winning the pennant, or the New Hampshire primary. It was a victory of the unknowns. Sophomore Bill Kelly, a reserve defensive back, and ends Pete Varney and Bruce Freeman became over-night heroes. And for Frank Champi, the moon-faced second string quarterback, it was a dream--not the dream he says he had the night before--but the dream he lived on the field...