Word: villanueva
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...next play, Cuccia showed he can throw a fine conventional pass as well, hitting flanker Steve Bianucci from the pocket for a 41-yard gain down to the three. Acheson hit paydirt on the next play, but Jim Villanueva missed the PAT, and the Crimson took a 6-0 lead...
That lasted until the Cadets put together a 15-play ball-control drive that used up six-and-a-half minutes of first-half time. Army took over on its own 20 after a Villanueva punt had reached the end zone for a touchback with 1:06 left in the first quarter...
After four lead changes, the momentum shifted for the last time when Crusader defensive end John Andreoli blasted through the Harvard line and blocked a Jim Villanueva punt attempt. Chris McMahon recovered the ball in the end zone for six Holy Cross points. A two-point conversion put the Crusaders ahead to stay, 26-19, with about nine minutes to go in the game...
...last year's undefeated freshman team, Villanueva finished second in scoring with 25 points. And at Palisades High School in Los Angeles, where he played both football and soccer, he set an L.A. record of nine field goals in a season, including kicks of 47, 48 and 49 yards. His 40-yarder on Saturday had plenty to spare as it split the uprights...
Actually, Villanueva's longest field goal, which came with 8:22 remaining in the first half and gave Harvard a 3-0 lead, appeared to be all the Crimson would need to win on this day. As Ron Cuccia, Jim Callinan, Jim Acheson and Scott McCabe began to run circles around the Lion defenders, and cornerback Rocky Delgadillo began relieving Columbia's intended receivers of the ball, it looked like the Crimson was on its way to a shutout...