Humenuk Pass Scores
Second-string quarterback Bill Humenuk took over the reins, and moved the team to the 12 yard line, where it sat until a fourth and 11 situation. In one of the outstanding plays of the game, Humenuk dropped back and threw a high pass which slowly dropped into the end zone.
As the ball came down, Columbia defender Herb Gerstein--a more but mighty 160 pounds--leaped up. Both ball and Gerstein converged on Harvard captain and end Pete Hart, who, to the amazement of everybody, came out with the ball in an impossible catch. Dave Ward made the conversion to make the score 12 to 7 and give Harvard new hope. (Hart made two determined catches Saturday.)
After the Crimson's kickoff, Columbia set off on its third TD drive--69 yards in 13 plays. In this drive, Vasell threw two passes, one after the other, on third and first down situations for 12 and 20 yards. Warren took the ball over from the three, and O'Connor passed to him in the end zone for two points after. That made the score 20 to 7, at the end of the first half.
On Harvard's comeback drive in the third quarter, halfback Chuck Reed, who had broken up Columbia's initial series of the game by intercepting a Vasell pass in the end zone, moved the ball 35 yards from the Harvard 30 to the Columbia 35 on the first play. Taylor and fullback Grana carried the load for the rest of the way until Taylor pushed the ball over from the one yard line at 9:14. The 70-yard drive was covered in 12 plays.
Late in the fourth quarter, with third and three, Bassett tried an option off right tackle in which came the fatal pitchout intercepted by Warren to give the Lions the ball on the Harvard 13. Haggerty ran the ball over from the two yard line to conclude the subsequent drive which sealed the final score, 26 to 14.
In the losing effort, Taylor and Reed stood out on offense for the Crimson, running for 49 and 46 yards, respectively, to lead the team. Guard Bill Swinford stood out on both offense and defense, in one of the most relentless jobs of hustle and fight a lineman could turn out in any league.