Word: elision
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The man could not be beaten, and in the previous year's Game, Dowling showed that all he needed was a small opening to guarantee victory. With only seconds left in the game, the quarterback threw a 65-yard touchdown pass to give the Elis a 24-20 win.
With Dowling, Hill and Bruce Weinstein, who would also play professional football, the Elis rolled to a perfect season in 1968.
When the Crimson and Elis met on Soldiers'Field, the game promised to be one of the mosthyped ever. The demand for tickets was so greatthat Harvard did not provide passes for allHarvard alumni who graduated after 1949.
Champi lines up. He takes the snap andscrambles. The gun sounding the end of regulationfires. The number one receiver on the play isCrim, but the fullback has three Elis ready tobatter him if the ball comes his way. Champireadies a toss to Crim, but pulls his hand back atthe last...
Champi snaps the ball and starts scrambling.He backs up to Yale's 15-yard line before tossingthe pigskin to monstrous tight end Peter Varney.Varney towers over Yale defensive end Ed Frankilnand snags the pass out of the air for Harvard'sversion of The Catch. The Stadium erupts; theCrimson has made...