Word: third-down
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...drive appeared stalled when Bridgton failed to convert a third-down attempt, but an unnecessary roughness call on Harvard gave the visitors first-and-goal from the four...
...NOTEBOOK: Having lost the game in the first quarter. Harvard's first-half states were awful: one out of nine on third-down conversions, 91 yards gained compared to UMass '207. At the Stadium Massachusetts 21 0 0 0--21 Harvard...
Leverett got as close as the 15-yard line in the second half, but the men in black and gold consistently broke through the Leverett line for sacks on crucial third-down plays...
...didn't matter that Ron Cuccia's passing stats on the afternoon read oh-for-four, zero yards, or that the Crimson's space age, quarterback-in-motion offense blew a couple of third-down conversions before clicking for a Don Allard-to-Paul Scheper touchdown pass late in the first half. There were so many opportunities to score that the Crimson needed only to convert on a few to blow the game open...
...theory, no defense would manage to defend against the quarterback-turned receiver, and that's just what happened, with Cuccia consistently getting open on crucial third-down situations. But Allard had some trouble getting the ball to Cuccia, and the play worked really well only once in the six times it was tried...