Word: spraker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Veteran spectators who watched Cornell pull out a last-gasp triumph over the varsity last Saturday may have recalled another game with a similar unhappy ending -- the Columbia contest of 1956. In that game little Claude Benham tossed a 69-yard scoring pass to halfback Ed Spraker with less than three minutes remaining and gave Columbia a 26-20 victory...
...went to the air again, heaving a pass from his own 31 to the Harvard 33. Since everyone in New York's Baker Field was expecting a pass, Crimson safety man Matt Botsford was in position to deflect the ball. Deflect it he did--right into the hands of Spraker on the 25--and the Lion halfback covered the last 25 yards without a hand laid...
...meet itself, Workman, who now went under the moniker of the Reverend W. H. Workman, added two more victories to his collection, setting a record of 1:55.6 in the half-mile and winning the American-sized distance race, the two-mile. J. S. Spraker of Yale also scored a double win, taking the high jump at a record 6 feet, 1 1/2 inches, and the broad jump. Boal again won the hammer, while O-C won the mile, and H-Y the 100, 440, and hurdles...
Thus reprieved, Benham faded back again on the next play and threw deep to halfback Ed Spraker. The toss was a bit short, and safety man Matt Botsford reached up for it on the Harvard 33 but only tipped the ball up toward Spraker, who gathered it in on the 25 and loped across for the winning score at 12:02. It appeared that if the ball had not been tipped up, Spraker would still have caught it but would have had to wait for it and could not have scored...
...Harvard attack stalled on the next series of downs, and Columbia tied the game by going 55 yards in eight plays. Spraker made a fine run with a short pass from Benham, gaining 24 yards, and then tallied on a 13-yard dash over left end. Benham had lateraled to him, then blocked Botsford on the three to put him across. The half ended...