Word: culver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then, to show that they were not merely a defensive line, these men, Bill Weber, Bernie O'Brien, Culolias, Meigs, Jeff Coolidge, Anderson, and Joe Ross, opened holes for Captain Dick Clasby and John Culver for 84 yards all the way down the field...
...Culver Carries Over...
With Clasby and Culver alternating short gains, the Crimson moved the ball to the Yale 34, where Jerry Marsh, starting his first college game, called a straight fullback play with Culver carrying. O'Brien and Culolias bowled over Eli guard Dick Polich, Weber hit the tackle, and Marsh took the linebacker. Culver broke through, cut to the sideline, and outraced Corelli over 34 very fast yards to climax one of the great Harvard football careers. This, Ross' extra point, subsequent interceptions by Coolidge and the steadily improving Al Culbert, and the Eli's own inability to pass ended all Yale...
...Crimson scored its first touchdown in the second quarter. After a sloppy Yale punt went out on the home team 34, the varsity, despite an offside penalty, moved across in seven plays. Culver smashed through the line three times, Clasby hit Lewis with a short pass, and then Lewis took the ball from Clasby, cut through the short side, knocked down one defender, outran two others, and carried one over with him after 22 yards of sheer determination. A holding penalty set the Crimson back to the 17, from where Ross just missed the point...
...Culver, whose speed matched his physical size, whose inside thrusts often set up Clasby's long outside runs, who could almost always get the extra yard, this was a fitting finale. No player in the East adapted himself better to two-way football than Culver, no one played more rugged football. It will be a long time before someone hits a Yale line as hard as Culver did today...