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After the opening minutes of the match, it was clear that 80 minutes was plenty. The Tiger attack was skillful and methodical, often stringing together more than 10 passes and effectively spreading the Crimson defense...
Princeton's only score came with 6:32 left in the first half, when Tiger defensive back Bill Carpenter picked off an errant pass from Harvard's Gregory Kouvelas and raced 36 yards for the touchdown. Princeton's offense was held by the charged Crimson defense and the unfavorable playing conditions to just 33 yards in the air and less than 100 on the ground...
Sure, some good things happened Saturday, like Jim Callinan's 190 yards on 34 carries for the second-best rushing day in Harvard history, or Tiger Bob Holly's 24 completions for 278 yards and two touch-downs or Princeton scatback Larry Van Pelt's 99 yards on the ground at the Stadium before...
...game deserved to be a tie, this one did. The biggest play of the afternoon was a motion penalty against Harvard with less than a minute left on the clock and the ball on the Tiger 12. Princeton's heroes were a yellow flag and a swirling wind...
...those three plays was the illegal motion cell, Harvard's sixth offensive penalty of the day and third inside the Tiger 20. The infraction pushed the ball back to the 17, and from there Restic put all of his eggs in Jim Villaneva's basket. Callinan gained four yards on two plays as the clock ticked down to seven seconds. After a pair of time outs, the sophomore missed the game-winning field goal kicking into the wind...