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...Harvard team doesn't have a bellyful of jelly. Those weren't emergency rations that we pulled on Brown. It was now about time for some of that long hard work beginning last Spring to start paying off. There were a lot of things that were good, like Paul Shafer's running, and Jim Noonan's passing, and Chuck Rocho's kicking, and Hal Mofilo's faking, but there was something that meant even more. That was when the whole team sitting on the bench gave Bob DiBlasio a hand after he came off the field just having missed...
After it was all over, Valpey admitted he had called two plays, that Shafer should try for a first down when it was fourth and one on the Harvard 45, and that Drvaric should try for a field goal
...pattern of the game was a master stroke. When the Brown ends hung back, the Crimson swept the flanks; when they crashed, Gannon and Shafer jump-passed and bucked for twenty yard gains. Above all, Harvard trapped. On fully half the plays Will Davis pulled out of the weak side and hit a gullible Bruin guard. The rest of the line blocked solidly and a stream of Crimson backs poured through a hole in the strong side...
Once through the line, the backs ran like acrobatic deer. Paul Shafer spun, cut back, and ploughed through crowds of Brown tacklers all afternoon. He played his best game of the season. For the first time this year Jimmy Noonan looked like a polished passer...
...people in the Harvard stands didn't go to sleep, though. They screamed and yelled and hollered as Valpey's harvest hands mowed down the Bruins. When Paul Shafer began cutting his way through the middle of the line, one Crimson enthusiast cut loose with a Diesel horn for accompaniment. The Brown linemen must have found the sound chillingly appropriate as they encountered the head, knees, elbows, and hips of Mr. Shafer...