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DIED. Richard G. Drew, 81, Minnesota-born inventor who in 1930, as a laboratory assistant for what is now the 3M Co., combined a glue and glycerin stickum with a strip of transparent cellophane to form Scotch tape; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
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...traded field goals in the third quarter, Cody splitting the uprights from 37 yds. out after the blocked punt and a subsequent ineligible receiver downfield penalty, and Rejda hit from 42 yds. after Mike Jacobs snapped the ball over Flach's head, because his hands were covered with glutinous stickum for his defensive duties...
Defensive back Mike Jacobs--who chipped in a first-quarter interception--had stickum on his hands and snapped the ball high over Flach. After Harvard's first possession in the second half, Jeff Lawrence's high snap resulted in Flach's punt being blocked and recovered at the Crimson goal line. But the gridders buckled down, tripping Crusader fullback Doug Pietrick for a one-yd. loss and then forcing a fumble which right tackle Tim Palmer recovered...
Normally a quality snapper, defensive back Jacobs had coated his hands with stickum to help grab Holy Cross passes; indeed Jacobs had made an interception just minutes earlier. But the stickum skewed the snap, and Flach wound up in a pile of bodies at the two. And on the next play, Crusader Doug Pietrick pushed it over to tie the score...