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HARVARD BLASTS YALE

72,000 Rowdy Fans See Callinan, Coppinger Star

Needing a long possession, Harvard lost ten yards in three downs and had to kick the ball away.

Yale took over near mid-field, but Rogan fumbled on a second down scramble; senior Jim DeBello hauled in the rolling pigskin to give Harvard the ball at the Eli 46. A face-mask violation moved the ball to the Yale 29, where Harvard took it, first and ten.

On third and 15, St. John worked from the shotgun and hit Callinan down the middle for a 23-yd. gain to the Eli nine. Callinan came back on the ground to buck for six more on first down. With the clock running past the 5-minute-to-go mark, Hollingsworth bulled to the two. And just seconds later, the Harvard sideline exploded as St. John rolled right on a keeper and stretched his body out just past the goaline for what was the icing on Harvard upset-flavored cake. Cody's kick was blocked but the Crimson still held a 15 point advantage, 22-7, with 4:29.

Following the kickoff, Yale tried a first-down bomb throw by its split end, but Coppinger came up with his second interception of the day and lowered the final Crimson boom on the waning Eli spirit.

Harvard strung together a series of first downs on the ground that teamed with a frustration-provoked Yale penalty to push the ball to the Bulldogs' 14-yd. line.

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As the clock rolled to one minute remaining, the capacity crowd began to stream onto the field as the Harvard fans roared. The Crimson ate up the clock and gave a beaten Eli team possession at its own 16 with 53 seconds to go.

And so Yale's dreams of an undefeated season sank into the sea of Crimson elation.

Freshmen Win 21-14

Harvard's freshman football team avenged last year's 31 to 0 humiliation downing Yale's version of yardlings, 21-14 this morning.

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