Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school was celebrating its Ivy League centennial and its homecoming weekend, and the odds were stacked against the Crimson from the start. With first-string quarterback Brian Buckley sidelined by knee problems and running backs Jim Callinan and Paul Scheper out with injuries, Harvard did not figure to chalk up an easy win against preseason Ivy favorite Dartmouth, especially in the Big Green's belligerent backyard...
...ambition. Alive on Arrival, his heel-kicking 1978 debut, moved zealous writers to compare Forbert with classic heartland American music-makers the likes of Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers. Then came Jackrabbit Slim, the 1979 follow-up, a helping of string and chorus-sweetened love songs, and the critics scooped their superlatives back again...
...loss was the Crimson's first since its 4-3 defeat at the hands of UMass last season, culminating an undefeated string which spanned 12 games...
After the game, Restic paid tribute to the officials, and to Cornell's elusive quarterback Doug Fusco, who ran the option competently save for Delgadillo's pick-off early on. Blackman contended that Fusco is only the Big Red's fourth-string quarterback--a likely story, considering that Cornell coaches in the press box were incredulous when the winningest coach in Ivy history substituted Mike Ryan for Fusco late in the third quarter...
...very first play from the Cornell 43, fourth-string Big Red quarterback, Doug Fusco, ran an option off right tackle and tossed a lateral--illegally, it turned out--to halfback Alva Taylor, who juked to the Harvard 39. A Harvard personal foul offset the illegal lateral, and Cornell kept the ball...