Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person who provided the offensive firepower for the Lions was another transplanted Bostonian and a product of B.C. High-- split end Fred Sullivan. Sullivan hauled in a 41-yard Kevin Burns aerial to set up the score that put the Lions ahead...
Indeed, the upstart Columbians, who are high on spirit but low on talent, took a 7-6 lead into the paint-starved clubhouse at halftime. The Crimson score, the climax to a 14-play, 79-yard drive midway through the second quarter, came on a five-year rollout by quarterback Tim Davenport, who, all things considered--like the fact this was his initial varsity start behind center--performed with aplomb...
Almost all, that is, for eight minutes into the second quarter, it missed one, a 41-yard floater down the right sideline from Burns to Fred Sullivan, which resulted in the former's touchdown jaunt two plays later...
Before the Crimson could get all of its first-team defenders, some of whom had been resting on the previous series of plays when the ball was in Columbia territory, back into the game, Burns had connected with Sullivan at Harvard's two-yard line...
...opening game dogfight between what most consider the Ivies' two top teams wasn't decided until the last minute of play, when the Bruins, trailing 10-7, had the ball second and goal at the Yale two yard line...