Word: varney
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Twenty years later, it is time to remember. Remember Gatto catching an eight-yd. touchdown pass as time ran out to put Harvard within two points of a tie? Remember Pete Varney catching the two-point conversion with no time on the clock that gave the Crimson its mythical, magical tie? Remember the Ivy League championship Harvard and Yale shared because they came out even in The Game...
Although Lalich completed just four passes in the game, one of them was the winning touchdown to Varney late in the game...
Senior quarterback George Lalich '69 got the starting nod and scored the winning TD from one yard out. Lalich dispelled any preseason doubts by going 11-for-19 on the afternoon. He found end Pete Varney '71 seven times for 89 yards and six first downs...
Harvard needed a two-point conversion to cut the lead to eight, and the comeback appeared to come up short when Champi's pass to Varney for the conversion was incomplete. But the officials ruled that Yale had interfered with the receiver, giving the Crimson a second chance. Crim bulled over on the next attempt to take advantage of the Eli mistake and keep Harvard alive...
Champi then sent end Pete Varney into the same spot of the end zone for the two-point conversion which tied The Game and broke the hearts of the 15,000 Yale fans in attendance...