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...Allard worked the play-action to perfection. Seeming to hand off to Granger. Allard instead dropped and found Gravey slunding all alone on the left sideline as the cornerback had fallen for the lake and moved up to stop the run. Allard hit his flanker with an easy spiral, and Garvey walked in with the game's first touchdown giving Harvard a 10-0 lend with 3:39 left in the opening quarter...
Harvard took over at its own 38 after Crimson corner Chris Myers picked off an errant Dean Pecevich toss (the first of two Myers interceptions on the day). On the first play from scrimmage. Allard dropped back and found Garvey open down the right sideline. The flanker took the spiral at about the UMass 38, broke through the arms of All-American safety Grady Fuller and raced all the way into the end zone. The play went 62 yards, and after Jim Villanueva's PAT was good, Harvard had tied the game with 12:54 left in the half...
...Witkowski stepped up in the pocket, clear of the Harvard rush, he noticed tight end Dan Upperco standing alone in the center of the end zone and hit him with a perfect spiral for the final score of the day. Columbia's try for a two-point conversion failed...
Armageddon notwithstanding, undergraduate politicos immediately split into opposing camps. The majority praised Kennedy's dramatic response, while a small but vocal leftist camp portrayed "a spiral of hostility" willfully accelerated by the White House...
...large demonstrations and widespread repression do occur this week, there could be a new spiral of violence that might ultimately prompt Soviet-bloc intervention. But if the regime succeeds in scaring people off the streets, its next move could be the formal banning of Solidarity. Either way, the prospects of reviving the dream of freedom that was born in Gdansk two years ago seemed dimmer than ever...