Word: fields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Saturday, Yale took the field knowing it had to confront a Harvard team sporting a 7-2 won-lost mark including a dazzling upset of Army, an impressive defense with a knack for the big play, and an offense which, while characterized by unevenness, seemed latently lethal...
...Bulldogs left the field smug and satisfied, having limited the Crimson's vaunted running attack to negative yardage (that's right, 21 carries for minus 11 yards) and having blanked Harvard in the Stadium for the first Game since...
...Crimson gridders, they left the field with the disconcerting notion that no matter how remarkable their early season accomplishments and countless memorable moments, they may be remembered as a team utterly dominated by Carm Cozza's charges in front of 40,000 strong and thousands more watching on ABC. After all, as Harvard players readily acknowledged before and after The Game, the season began and ended Saturday...
Irony, an ever-present factor in Games over the years, proceeded to make its entrance. Crimson coach Joe Restic called time out, knowing that Yale placekicker Tony Jones could not hit a 42-yd. field goal against the strong wind. With the Elis forced to go for it on fourth down before the quarter expired. Rogan clicked with Grieve, giving Yale all the points it needed...
Yale safety Mike Muscatello--who had deflected several passes earlier--and cornerback Dave Daugherty picked off Buckley aerials in the final quarter as the Crimson lurched from crisis to crisis. As shadows lengthened at the closed end of Soldiers Field, the Crimson became shrouded in a black wave of failure pinned deep in its own end and unable to mount any forward thrusts...