Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second half was horribly, inexcusably frustrating. Harvard ran off 30 plays in the third period Penn ran off six. But Harvard failed to score...
...Harvard received the opening kickoff and in seven plays moved 60 yards to a first down on the Penn 10-yard line. But a desperate Quaker line dropped halfback Ray Hornblower on a second-and-six play and stocked up fullback. Tom Miller on the goal line to take over on downs. It was the first of a discouraging series of stalled Harvard drives, and foreshadowed the second consecutive game in which the Crimson has failed to put together a drive for a touchdown...
...field position engendered worse field position, and by the second quarter, it was evident that Penn was not going to win the football game. Harvard would have to lose...
Early in the second period, however, the Quakers put together their only successful drive of the game, a steady 66-yard march in 14 plays that caught Harvard's defense napping on a pass to split end Pete Blumenthal that brought Penn to midfield. Ten plays later on third-and-nine. Blumenthal got the call again, this time on a perfectly executed end-around play that gave the Quakers a first down on the Crimson...
...Hornblower tried the first time, and was stacked up. The second time he was apparently across the goal, but the referees disagreed. On the third attempt Harrison had sufficient daylight on the left side, but lost his footing on the Astroturf surface, and fell two yards short...