Word: touchdownes
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...marshlike field, combined with wind and rain, dictated an early strategy of cautious football for both teams. Midway through the first quarter the Dartmouth J.V. converted this strategy into a score, driving 94 yards for a touchdown without throwing a single pass. The Harvard defense couldn't seem to get its footing as the Dartmouth backs picked up five and ten yards at a clip on sweeps and off tackle plays. The 12-play drive was capped by a quarterback keeper...
...Cornell game was more of an exhibition skirmish. The Crimson defense, which can be taken for one legitimate touchdown a game but little else, proved early that it could stop the Big Red charge when it so desired. It so desired when Cornell reached the Harvard 27 on the opening drive of the game, when the Big Red advanced on the Crimson 14 right before the half, and on all but one occasion in the final quarter, when Cornell scored its lone points of a winter-like afternoon...
...course, neither did the opposition, and when you throw in the hour that the football team spent there, and the lone touchdown it gave up, you realize that Harvard spent four hours on polyturf and gave up just one score itself. One in 240 minutes. That's stingy...
...when, in the third quarter of that fiasco, Cornell's Dave Johnson retrieved a high snap from center on a punt attempt, found an opening down the left sideline and sloshed 75 yards for the game's lone touchdown, more than just Harvard's talent advantage was wiped out. So was its undefeated season, and so was its pride...
...Colgate defense kept the home team from getting back into the game twice, and now the Raider offense made sure that Harvard wouldn't get another chance. Another Andrewlavage field goal and a crisp touchdown driver after a good punt return put the contest away...