Word: smerczynski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson, on the other hand, used its fourth signalcaller in as many games Saturday at Schoellkopf Field as Harvard quarterbacks continued to fall victim to the injury plague like so many medieval Europeans. After a sputtery offensive quarter and a half, Mike Smerczynski scrambled back toward the line of scrimmage and went down hard. He limped off the field with a badly sprained ankle, and the jinx lives...
With Beatrice working left on pitchouts from Smerczynski, Harvard began to drive upfield. On a second and five from the 47, Smerczynski was sacked and limped off the field. Joe Lahti then entered the game and immediately ossed a 17-yd. bullet that Richie Horner snared with a leaping grab at the sidelines on the Big Red 40-yd. stripe...
...today, with a 1-0 Ivy record-thanks to Columbia-Harvard will open with sophomore Mike Smerczynski at the helm, Joe Lahti and Jim Keyte in the wings, and coach Joe Restic at the altar-praying very hard...
Harvard takes the field in the wake of disruption. During the past week, Restic has worked with three quarterbacks, trying to get each in some state of preparedness. Previously, Restic had taken heat for devoting almost all between-game time to one quarterback. Now he has Smerczynski, Lahti, and Keyte all mildly ready-though none as thoroughly as if he had devoted full time...
...Smerczynski, an agile scrambler, will run the attack, though Restic says he may use the strong-armed Lahti if Harvard needs more of a passing game. Keyte, having worked three weeks at the halfback spot, returned this week to his preseason position behind the center--at Restic's request...