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Cornell has scored on its first possession of the day, and now Jim Villanueva had just booted a 39-yard field goal, giving Harvard three points on its final possession of the day. In between, each team had blown one sterling shot at a touchdown. Very simple, except for the yellow flag resting on Schoelkopf Field's artificial turf...
...minutes into the second quarter, Harvard leads by a pair of TDs and hopes to make it 17-0. Jim Villanueva, who hit from 45 yards out against Columbia, tries for another personal best, this time a 47-yarder. He gets the distance, but it's wide to the right...
...very next Crimson drive ended in Villanueva's off-target kick. After the Healy-to-Dickerson connection two plays later, the field tilted in the other direction...
...Villanueva had a chance to break the tie with a second 47-yard field goal attempt--which also went far enough but to the right. But the next Crimson drive left him with a more manageable task: with 5:58 showing on the clock, he split the uprights to give Harvard the 24-21 edge...
Today's game shapes up to be a cliff hanger, and it could become a battle of the boots, with Army's star place-kicker Craig Stopa or Harvard thunder foot Jim Villanueva kicking the deciding field goal...