Word: gatto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scoring twice and rambling 86 yards on 13 carries, halfback Richie Gatto led a Crimson rushing attack that plowed through the mud at Brown's Moses Brown Field for 319 yards...
...past few seasons, it seems as if the Crimson football team has had a natural propensity for turning out a steady number of superb halfbacks. When Bobby Leo was a senior in 1966, a sophomore named Vie Gatto was beginning to break into the varsity lineup. Ray Hornblower was to follow him, and this year the Crimson has unveiled a possible successor to these standouts-Steve Harrison...
Hornblower, who was the only one to win Harvard's Offensive Player of the Week Award twice last year despite the presence of Vic Gatto, is the only member of the original backfield who is starting after the first six games. Frank Champi quit, Steve Harrison displaced John Ballantyne and Gus Crim is injured, as are Scotty Guild and John Lakaska...
...became apparent that Yale would roll to an undefeated season. After Harvard beat Dartmouth, it realistically had only to dump Penn and outlast Princeton to set up a battle that sportswriters had waited almost a century to glorify. Harvard and Yale, both undefeated, headed by the gods, Dowling and Gatto, Yale's unstoppable offense against Harvard's unmovable defense, with the Ivy title at stake, and Dowling's deification on the line...
Running backs have been talented and plentiful in recent years, but this fall Yovicsin will be able to employ two different backfields of first-string quality. Senior Ray Hornblower, Gatto's shifty running mate last year, may team with sophomore Steve Harrison, a hard-running halfback who scored 48 points for the freshmen last fall, to form one of the most dangerous pairs in the East. Senior lettermen John Ballantyne and Jim Reynolds, who confirmed their quality with fine second-half performances as juniors, are definitely capable of strong backup support, and juniors Richie Szaro, Scotty Guild, Skip Vaccarello...