Harvard came back again when Bob Laughton fumbled the kickoff and Ulciekas recovered at the Bucknell 39. Nine plays later it was Harvard 21, Bucknell 17, with Bilodeau flipping a nine-yard pass to Leo for the score. Leo took the ball at the five, slanting across the middle and just reachjed the corner of the end zone before two Bisons thraw him out of bounds.
One fumble and an interception later, Bucknell took over at its own 43 and it took just four plays--all passes, all complete--for the Bisons to march 57 yards and score. Lerro threw to Mitchell, to Kinsey, to Mitchell again to the Harvard 25, and to Kinsey, who eluded Dockery's tackle at the 10, sidestepped Mechling and scored. Al Siegfried's Conversion made it 24-21, the way it stayed.
The game wasn't over yet. After the ubiquitious Mechling punted to the Bucknell 21, a Lerro-to-Kinsey pass was picked off by Bilodeau. Three different Bucknell men hit him as he weaved and wobbled on a 21-yard return that brought the fans screaming to their feet and Harvard to the Bucknell 39.
Yovicsin took out the exhausted Bilodeau, who had played virtually every minute of the half, and brought in McCluskey. But on the next play McCluskey's pitchout bounced out of Leo's hands and into Morgan's
After two plays Coons quickkicked for Bucknell and the ball debated dying on the one-yard line before barely flipping into the endzone. It might as well have stayed: Bilodeau, now quarterbacking again, fumbled on the 16, the last of five Harvard fumbles.
But the defense dug in and Dockery made a goal-line interception of a Lerro pass. Again Harvard marched, with McCluskey at the controls, this time for 54 yards. Leo was the work horse, running 21 yards and catching passes for 12.
But the drive stalled, McCluskey was thrown behind the line on third down, and Bilodean came in to try a fourthand-17 pass with a minute remaining. Pete Hall, between two Bucknell defenders, went high in the air, but the ball slapped off his hands and fell at the five-yard line.
"We didn't change our pass defense at all this week," said John Yovicsin. "We just worked harder at it." There were four interceptions. But the books said Bucknell had passed for 231 yards, and that next week's opponent has a quarterback named Archie Roberts.