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Everyone always talks about the quarterbacks, Donnie Allard set a Harvard mark with 358 passing yards against UMass a month ago, and Cambridge is still raving about it. Princeton's Bob Holly was a bit more flamboyant as last year's Tiger signal caller. He passed for 501 yards against Yale, which has immortalized him in the eyes of Princeton alumni...
Which leads us to Brent Woods, the current Tiger QB, who looks a lot like last year's edition. Going into Saturday's game against Harvard, he had led the nation in total offense for five weeks in a row. And the Harvard girders, naturally, were expected to lie down and watch this one-man offense pass them into the turf...
Allard, back after a week's layoff because of a bruised collarbone, accounted for all three Harvard touchdowns, passing for two and running for the other. He executed play action takes so well that by midway through the second quarter, even the Tiger defensive backs were hitting the line, duped into thinking "run." That left the Harvard receives open for most of the afternoon...
...Harvard secondary came up with six interceptions--trying the all time Ivy mark set by both Harvard (against Penn) and Princeton (against Brown) in 1962. Each quick halted a potential Tiger scoring opportunity...
After Princeton narrowed the Crimson's margin to three on a one-yard plunge by halfback Road Warren, Allard went back to working a whip and chair over the Tiger defenders...