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...when Cuccia found his injury was serious enough to keep him out of practice this past week. Coach Joe Restic had no reservations about starting Allard...
Today, against the University of Massachusetts at Soldiers Field, the Winchester native returns to the starting corps. After two years of watching somebody else ease the game-day jitters by taking the first snap from center, Donnie Allard will be out there himself...
Last week against Columbia, Allard filled his accustomed role of entering a game already in progress, though the circumstances were somewhat different from what they had been in the past. Midway through the second quarter, starter Cuccia took a hard shot and suffered some bruised ribs. For the rest of the day, the Multiflex was Allard's to control...
...Allard will be running the Multiflex a little bit differently than Cuccia would this afternoon ("We adjust it to play to Donnie's strengths," Restic says), and hoping to move the ball on the ground against a tough UMass defense. Just because coach and quarterback are hoping to run effectively against the Minutemen, however, don't think the Crimson offense will be featuring a Callinan-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense. "I'm not afraid to throw the ball on first down," Allard says, and you can bet he will, especially off of a lot of play-action fakes...
There will be one final incentive for Allard today. His father, Don Allard, Sr., who quarterbacked the Boston College offense for three seasons in the late '50s, will be on hand to watch his son in his varsity starting debut...