Saturday marked the return of Brian Buckley to Crimson signal-calling duties, and though the performance was not his best, the senior's mere presence in the lineup makes Harvard a very different football team from the one that lost two straight.

After the opening kickoff, Buckley led Harvard on an impressive 11-play, 54-yd. drive, but the Crimson couldn't get any points out of it. With the drive stalled just out of field goal range, a repeat of the Princeton Syndrome seemed possible--Harvard marching up and down the field without managing to put any points on the board, as it did in the frustrating 7-3 loss to the Tigers last week.

But Delgadillo's interception and the resulting Cody field goal dispelled notions of a repeat. And even though Buckley fumbled and threw an interception deep in Brown territory, the Crimson seemed in control.

Buckley finally got six when, one play after Stinn's interception at the Brown 27, he found Paul Connors on a screen pass and the senior broke a pair of tackles along the left sideline en route to a 10-3 Harvard lead, 10:09 into the second quarter.

Both offenses flailed around to little success until Brown got a big break midway through the third quarter. Connors fumbled at the Harvard 19 and, five plays later, Curtin bulled over from the seven.

But Harvard came back early in the fourth quarter. A superb Steve Flach punt was downed at the seven, and the Harvard defense forced a punt out of the Bruin endzone.

On the Up

With the consequent good field position, Buckley directed a six-play scoring drive, the highlight a crucial 18-yd. run by seldom-used halfback Jim Acheson. With 10:40 left in the game, Buckley hit Tom Beatrice with a screen pass off the shotgun and the steady halfback went 13 yds. with the score that put Harvard up, 17-10.

That was it until Brown's surprising final 88-yd. drive. "We fell apart, to say the least," linebacker Bob Woolway, who had seven tackles on the day, said.