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...fourth Harvard player to receive the Lowe Award. All-American guard Endicott Peabody was the first, in 1941. Halfback Dick Clasby, who still despite Leo holds most of Harvard's rushing records, was honored in 1952. Half-back Chet Boulris, who won the award in 1959, was the last Crimson recipient before...
...Harvard touchdowns came on two third-period scores by sophomore half-back Marshall Goldberg, a long first quarter drive climaxed by fullback Tony Hick's touchdown carry from the one-yard line, and a ten yard run by Hicks in the fourth quarter...
Harvard had dominated the first half in everything except scoring. For the first time since the Bucknell game, the Crimson put together long marches, the best of them an 89-yarder that accounted for the first touchdown. Never gaining more than nine yards in a play, quarterback John McCluskey, fullback Stan Yastrzemski, and Pat Conway, a half-back for the first time in his varsity career, chewed off the distance in four-yard plunges. They got immmeasurable help from a fourth-down penalty on Brown after the Bruins forced Harvard to kick. McCluskey set up the score with a nine...
Other players populating a distinguished "sick list" include starting half-back Dave Poe and kicking specialist Maury Dullea. Poe injured an ankle; his status for the Brown game is uncertain...
Crimson fullback Alex Patton and half-back Lawrie Coburn suffered knee injuries in the contest, and ace right inside Fred Akuffo had leg trouble. Nonetheless, Harvard really didn't have an excuse. The weather was good. The field was good. The refereeing was good. But the Crimson was ineffectual...