Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale got off to a quick start when Ben "Butterfingers" Beach took the opening kickoff and returned it 55 yards for the initial score. Unfortunately for the Crimeds. Beach had run the wrong way and the Bulldogs scored a safety. Beach roared back in the second quarter, however, to score the first Crimson touchdown with a long, 34-yard gallop. He slanted off the right tackle, broke three tackles, and scampered the remaining distance to the goal line to give the CRIMSON a 7-2 halftime edge...
Arriving late at DeWitt Cuyler Field, the Crimson was assessed a five yard penalty for delay of the game before the game even started. Once play began, the two teams battled evenly for three quarters, then Harvard sewed up its second straight win over Yale with a 19-point fourth quarter explosion...
...Harvard was stopped on its own 30 yard line after receiving the Bulldog kick-off, but a roughing the kicker penalty put them back to business at their 45. On fourth down at the Yale 48, Yardling fullback Chuck Krohn rolled off a pile-up at the line of scrimmage, and galloped through the Eli secondary for the tying score...
Yale bounced back with a 69-yard bomb from Purrington to Dick Jauron, but, the Yardlings' potent rushing attack soon put the game on ice, Fullback Ted DeMars capped a 65-yard drive, all on the ground, with a two-yard blast midway through the last quarter. John Kidwell's point after made the score...
Winthrop and Dunster weren't so fortunate. Despite a respectable passing attack. Dunster could not sustain a drive and only scored on a 65-yard run when the kicker decided not to punt. Davenport Pierson's running game was too rough and the Elis rolled up a 14-0 lead before eventually winning. 20-8. Winthrop was shut out, 8-0 by Calhoun-Berkeley...