Word: yales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just when it looked like Harvard would have to punt the ball away for a second time, a Yale offside penalty on the kick moved Harvard to a first down and a new life. Hollingsworth took a St. John screen pass on second down and eked his way into Eli territory for a 16-yd. gain to the Yale...
...looked like the Harvard drive would end rudely when the Yale secondary picked off a St. John pass, but again the jumpy Yalies were offsides and turned the ball back to Harvard...
...penalties proved costly when, on third down and 6 from the Yale 38, St. John hit Callinan with a thread-the-needle aerial down the sidelines and the halfback tip-toed into the end zone with just 25 seconds gone in the second quarter. The 70-yd., 9-play drive ended with Cody missing the PAT, leaving Harvard with an astonishing 13-0 lead...
With Bulldog fans choking on their pop corn and daiquiris, Yale took the kick-off and started to move for the first time. With John Rogan taking over the signal-calling, the Elis confidently marched down-field. A 29-yd. John Nitti gallop gave Yale a first and 10 at the Crimson 21. Rogan rolled to the Harvard 9 just tow plays later, and Hill scampered to a first and goal at the four...
...times Hill tested the Harvard line and failed. Right cornerback Steve Wool intervened on third down to break up a Yale pass. Yale scorned the field goal on fourth down, and Rogan once more failed to complete the pass. Finding no holes in the stiffened Harvard defense, he tossed the ball out of the end zone...