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With Emanuel Ekama still testing a sore ankle, and Nourie Harrower suffering from the flu. Harvard was unable to control play at midfield. Shifting out of their short passing game, the Harvard backs tried to pinpoint individual forwards with long passes...
During the game Wesleyan tried several different defensive alignments, and at this point they shifted it into a 4-3-3 formation. Rather than meet the Harvard attack at midfield, the Wesleyan defense played back, hoping that the additional men in the penalty area would negate the finesse of the Harvard forwards...
Although the Columbia line featured fancy footwork and several unspellable names, the Harvard backs broke up most plays before they even reached midfield. The Lions tried to penetrate with long passes and fast breaks, but the Harvard defense was soon intercepting passes at will, and the attack deteriorated to un-gettable through passes and futile dribbling...
...gift from Foster. Tom Luciani, Columbia's excellent linebacker, was the recipient of an off-target Foster pass, and he rumbled down to the Harvard four. Jackson converted the break into a score on a rollout pass and Columbia had seven points on the board without having penetrated midfield offensively...
...outs. Minutes before he fired the interception to Luciani, he had laid a bomb into the hands of Ted DeMars for what appeared to be a 50 yard touchdown play. However, DeMars had stepped out of bounds before he caught the pass, and the ball was brought back to midfield...