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...down. The drive finished with a touchdown pass from Randolph to Jon Brock and a successful extra point kick from Matt Partain, giving Holy Cross the 7-3 lead.Harvard’s second possession started off with a 15-yard run by Ben Jenkins, the junior safety-turned-tailback. Though Jenkins is likely to get a majority of the handoffs, junior Cheng Ho ran some plays in the second quarter, and Gordon was used primarily in the fourth quarter.“Jenkins has done a terrific job all preseason, something that we had not foreseen, moving him over...
...halftime of the Crimson’s 27-12 win—finally reached its Ivy League champion potential. In the 23-7 victory over Penn, the defense continued to shine against a strong Quaker run game, allowing just 198 total offensive yards and limiting the second best tailback in the league to just 73 on the ground. But the offense, too, showed the best was yet to come, with Pizzotti throwing for 232 yards and two touchdowns against one of the top defenses in the Ivies.“We got better every game,” Murphy said.Yale...
...games. Even with the paltry numbers from The Game, the Bulldogs wound up with 2,649 rushing yards, 31 ground TDs, and a team average of 4.9 yards per carry in their 10-game campaign.The lion’s share of those stats came from sensational junior tailback Mike McLeod, who faltered on the bell lap of what was to be a record-setting season. Able to muster only 50 yards on 20 tries against the Harvard front, he fell shy of Ed Marinaro’s single-season Ivy League marks for rushing yards and touchdowns. His final ledger?...
...loss, one of which was a sack. Junior linebacker Eric Schultz contributed five tackles, one and a half for a loss, and the other sack. Polhemus ended the day with two completions and as many interceptions.But it was not the pass rush that started the shellacking. Facing Yale junior tailback Mike McLeod, who was averaging nearly 175 yards on the ground and more than two touchdowns per game coming in, the Crimson defense had to stop the run before Polhemus was forced to the air. And it did just that—before being taken out in the fourth quarter...
...yard pass and run that gave the Crimson a 13-0 advantage following a missed extra point. A fourth-down stop on Yale’s next drive gave Harvard the ball back for an 11-play drive that resulted in a one-yard dive from sophomore tailback Cheng Ho to make the score...