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MIDDLEBURY, Conn.--"Goodnight Harvard, Goodnight Harvard," sang the partisan home crowd here yesterday as overtime drew to an agonizing close for a Crimson eleven which had outplayed Wesleyan only to lose their third straight game of the young season...
...hundred and four minutes and 48 seconds of scoreless soccer ended halfway through the second 10-minute overtime period when Wesleyan's Paul Roland emerged from a scramble for the ball at the 18-yd. line, then laid a beautiful pass at the feet of Stan Hamilton. Hamilton had the simple task of shooting across the goalmouth past a helpless Harvard goalie Billy Blood for the game winner...
Harvard had dominated most of the play on Wesleyan's short field; it had controlled midfield for much of the game as Michael Smith, among others, played especially well; it had only one major defensive breakdown before the final score and Billy Blood had stalled that first-half Wesleyan thrust with a superlative diving save to his right; and it had slowly begun to open holes in the Wesleyan defense with long passes from John Sanacore and Smith. But the Crimson had not scored...
...first half, Nelson dribbled free of the Wesleyan defense five yards outside the penalty area but then took one step too many and had his shot blocked by a defender as coach George Ford muttered "Why wait?" on the sideline...
...Harvard backs, on the other hand, played by far their best game of the season. Sanacore and sweeper back captain Jim Langton closed off the Wesleyan forwards most of the day and added spice to the offense when it lagged, with long runs upfield...