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Saturday's game was supposed to be a high-scoring affair, pitting Crimson quarterback Jim Stoeckel's passing and coach Joe Restic's balanced attack against the Tigers' Hank Bjorklund and coach Jake McCandless's equally balanced offense. Instead, each team turned the ball over six times and turned the game into a comedy of errors...
Meanwhile, the Crimson, which couldn't help but be in good field position the whole period, managed to put but three points on the scoreboard. Stoeckel didn't get particularly outstanding pass protection and when he did, he usually overthrew his receiver...
When discussing the season, Stoeckel termed it "very successful." "I think people were expecting too much," he said. "Coach Restic was supposed to come in, and install a magical offense, but it took time." Whereas observers felt that the players would adapt to a new system faster just because they were from Harvard, "probably just the reverse occurred," Stoeckel noted. "Because we aren't a football factory, and aren't all on football scholarships we don't spend as much time on football, and it took us longer to adapt to the new system...
Notwithstanding. Stoeckel thinks Joe Restic has "done a great job." "We could have easily been 6-0 instead of 3-3," he said. "Phases of our offense have been getting better each week, and last week things finally fit together. The line has been giving me great protection, and if you have protection you should theoretically be able to complete every pass...
Concerning the game against Princeton today, Stoeckel has praise for their defense, and he thinks that they are, at the moment, "the hottest team in the Ivy League." "It should be one of the toughest, if not the toughest, game as far," he added...