Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...punting game, A1 (Don't call me Fred) MacMurray never gave the Lions outrageous field position, and did manage to crank a 62-yarder in the second quarter. My personal feeling is that Harvard punting can't get anything but better after Scotty Coolidge's 10-yard boomer against Princeton last fall...
Sophomore running back Paul Connors, who runs like a cross between a sewing machine ar-1 a machete, burst up the middle for a 17-yd. pickup, his longest of the day, putting Harvard at the Lions' 25-yard line. But the drive finally petered out when on third down and seven yards to go for a TD, Sablock took a pitch out from Brown and tossed to Rich Horner, who caught the ball but landed outside of the endzone stripe. Bosnic then came on to give Harvard a 3-0 first-quarter lead...
...quarter, Harvard proceeded to tie the game at 6-6 on Bosnic's second field goal, a 35-yarder that split the uprights. Brown moved the Crimson into scoring position with a drive that started with an impromptu screen pass to Connors. He carried it down to the ten-yard line, only to have the play called back because of a holding penalty. However, on the next play from scrimmage, Brown hit Ralp Polillio curling in on the left sideline for an 18-yd, gain that set up the score...
Down 14-0 at half time, the Tigers got their first tally as a result of a successful fake punt, their second thanks to two fourth and short yardage conversions. Ed Arlin hauled in a 23 yard pass from junior quarterback Ken Barrett for the final score...
Meyer, Sheehan, Murphy and Bickford ran together through the first two miles, before Meyer picked up the pace and Bickford followed him out ahead of the pack. At the three-mile mark, though, the fleetfooted Bickford made his move and opened up a 30-yard lead...