Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game was not supposed to be close, but Harvard's defense decided to make it that way. On the first eight plays of the first quarter. Yale drove 50 yards to the Harvard 24, but then the defense stiffened...
...there was reason for Yale's concern for most of the fourth quarter. Roda, sent in to replace sophomore starter Rex Blankenship, began throwing completions into the shaky Yale secondary, and had it not been for the defensive end Jim Gallagher and a few linemates. Harvard could easily have tied and perhaps have won the 86th game of the series...
...second quarter, the offense occasionally indicated that it might score some points. After fullback Tom Miller had gained a total of one yard on two consecutive carries. Blankenship sent him up the middle on a third-and-nine situation. He broke through the line, and with the help of a crushing block by Varney, gained 18 yards to the Harvard...
...chance to end all chances came five minutes into the final quarter. Mark Steiner, one of the defensive standouts, recovered a fumble by Martin to stop another Yale threat. A few moments later. Gallagher, who had blocked five punts this season, roughed Singleterry to set up a first down at the Yale 40 Roda's long pass to Varney followed immediately and it seemed certain a tie was near...
...CRIMSON scored in the first quarter when a long-haired child bearing much resemblance to a draft-dodger tossed a lucky pass to another of his ilk; the same thing unaccountably happened again in the third quarter. Meanwhile, the CRIMSON tacked on a disputed safety which the Niemans have threatened to refer to Dean Ernest May for adjudication (ed. note: Dean May, through a spokesman, said the matter would be referred to six committees, a Faculty Club vote, and the class...