Word: cornerback
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Bartholomew got the ball on first down and gained three yards to 21-yard line. Lee found Brown open in the back of the end zone over cornerback Andy Fried, but the pass bounced off Brown's facemask and dropped incomplete...
...next play, Rose threw a pass down the sideline, but the ball was picked off by junior cornerback Ray Littleton, who returned the ball down to the Harvard 10-yard line before he was pushed out of bounds by Rose...
...next play, Lee passed to Johnson, who was hit hard and fumbled directly into the hands of Harvard cornerback Andy Fried, who returned the ball to the Yale 15-yard line...
Following the field goal, Harvard took over at its 35-yard line. A 17-yard pass to Sam Taylor on 3rd-13 seemed to jolt some life into Harvard's offense. Yet, any momentum the Crimson may have obtained vanished on the following play. Yale's junior cornerback Ray Littleton stepped in front of Morris and took Rose's pass 45 yards the other way to set up another Yale touchdown, the nail in the coffin for Harvard's chances...
...suddenly, the unthinkable happened. Harvard cornerback Rick Frisbie '71 tackled Calvin Hill with such jarring force that Hill fumbled. Harvard took over, still trailing by 16 points. Harvard coach John Yovison astounded the fans with a daring decision--he inserted third-string quarterback Frank Champi '70 into perhaps the most most high-pressure situation in Ivy League sports history. The decision proved not only bold, but prescient. Champi, though he had played but a few minutes in his entire Harvard career up to that point, methodically picked apart the Yale defense and reached the endzone with a touchdown toss. Forty...