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Then, in the regular season's opening game, the Giants "exploded" against the St. Loius Cardinals for 41 points, including five touchdown passes by quarterback Phil "The one with the two M's" Simms. Wide receiver Earnest Gray caught four of those passes to set a new Giants' record. Al Garrett returned a punt 66 yards. They even won the game...
Last weekend the Giants went back to their accustomed style of the past few years, the old blow-it-in-the-last-two-minutes trick. Washington Redskins' placekicker Mark Moseley split the uprights with only 1:55 left to win the game, 23-21. Simms threw another touchdown pass, but he also threw three interceptions. The question now seems to be: which are the real Giants...
...chance to show their stuff," senior linebacker Bob Woolway said yesterday, and some did so with a flourish. Scott McCabe, the top rusher on last year's freshman team, came up with the play of the game when he returned a Dave Cody kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown. The runback, in which he cut through a nicely-formed wedge of blockers, then outran everybody up the right sideline, along with a 36-yd. run on a screen pass against the first-team defense, will put the West-borough native in line for some playing time Saturday. Sophomore defensive right...
...Game itself proceeded with an almost mathematical certainly. Harvard took the opening kickoff on its own 26-yd. line and marched all the way for the TD, the first first-quarter touchdown Yale had allowed all year...
Sophomore Jim Callinan, injured during much of the season, provided the offensive spark, leading all rushers with 73 yards on 18 carries, and scoring a touchdown on a second-quarter aerial connection from senior quarterback Burke St. John. And defensive back Pete Coppinger, another sophomore, picked off two passes to anchor the defense...