Grana made the run possible with a crushing back, his last of the season. He left after the play with a broken bone in his foot. Taylor completed the march with a four yard gain over left tackle for the touchdown, his tenth of the season.
The Crimson was greeted by a much tougher and meaner Bulldog in the third quarter. In fact, the dog was downright, menacing. Only Taylor was able to gain appreciable yardage.
The Bulldog was more defensive, but at first he showed little offensive spark. Then suddenly, a curious drama was staged on the field.
Yalie John Cirie took a Taylor punt on his own 41, and dutifully headed up the field. He was generally ignored by most of the Harvard team however, who furiously attacked several Yalies on the other side of the field.
Crimson tackle Ed Smith finally spotted Cirie at midfield, and attempted, un-successfully, to tackle him. He did succeed, though, in inadvertently blocking out two other would-be tacklers. Thus protected, Cirie quietly went on his way to the end zone, making the score 7-6. Yale's bid for two more points was denied by Frank Ulcickas and Smith.
Harvard moved out of reach in the final period when Harshbarger took a short O'Connell punt on his own 34 and returned it 21 yards. Four plays later Fred Bartl crashed over the goal line, and Hartranft again connected on the conversion kick.
There was a surge of excitement when Harvard's Jeff Pochop recovered Lee Marsh's fumble on Yale's first play, but a holding penalty nullified Bassett's touchdown run several plays later, and a field goal attempt was short.
Taylor made a valiant try for the touchdown before Bartl's carry, but just failed. Injured on the play, he left the field on a stretcher. The crowd gave him a tumultuous ovation, both in honor of his play in The Game, and his magnificent career.
The victory, combined with Princeton's grudging loss to unbeatable Dartmouth, gave Harvard second place in the Ivy League. It also secured a 6-3 season for the Crimson, and its third Big Three crown in four years. And as J. Bennington Peers III has shrewdly noted, it's the Big Three title that really counts.