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Down 14 points late in the second quarter, Stoeckel worked the short side of the field masterfully in drive after drive. Sending Miller plunging into the line for tough inside yardage. Stoeckel opened up the outside for the option and short passes to McInally and tight end Pete Curtin...
After that, wherever his 6 ft. 4 in. frame went, a swarm of Penn defenders, led by their star defensive back Ken Bald, diligently followed. And Stoeckel repeatedly hit Curtin, Miller or Steve Dart in the hole in the secondary that was left...
Methodically wearing down the Penn defenders--Harvard ran 19 more plays than Penn--Stoeckel put three points on the board with a 20-yard Bruce Tetirick field goal. The field goal made Tetirick the leading scoring kicker in Harvard history...
...third period, Harvard scored quickly from 45 yards out in two plays. Miller ran for 34 yards up the middle on the first, and then Stoeckel faked to him, faked the pitch to Dart, and cut back sharply, scoring standing up. Another Tetirick field goal--this one from 33 yards--narrowed the Penn lead to one point...
Penn gave up the go ahead touchdown when Bald fumbled a Stoeckel punt at the seven with three minutes still remaining in the third period. Having learned the lessons of the Dartmouth debacle, Stoeckel handed the ball three straight times to Miller, who punched it over from...