NEW HAVEN--Reality came crashing down on the Harvard football team at the Yale Bowl this afternoon, as 75,300 fans watched a superior Yale squad shut down the Crimson and roll to a 28-0 victory en route to its third consecutive Ivy League title, a co-championship with Dartmouth.

The Green defeated Penn, in Philadelphia, to earn the title of co champion with a 6-1 Ivy record.

Despite limiting the nation's fifth-leading rusher, Rich Diana, to under 100 yards and moving the ball on the vaunted Eli defense, Harvard was unable to score on Yale for the second consecutive year. The bulldogs punched over 14 points in a span of 79 seconds early in the game and held on to beat the gridders for the 54th time in the 98-year history of The Game (eight games have been tied).

And so the upset hopes of the Crimson, which was still in the running for the Ivy title entering the game, despite a loss and a tie, were quashed for another season. Harvard finishes the year with a 5-4-1 record (4-2-1 in the Ivies), while Yale is 9-1 (6-1 Ivy) for the second consecutive year.

The game culminated outstanding seasons and careers for players on both sides. With his second carry of the day Jim Callinan became the first player in Harvard history to rush for 1000 vards in a single season.

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Later in the game, Callinan also broke the Crimson single season record for rushing attempts.

And with his touchdown reception in the first minute of the second quarter, Yale split end Curtis Grieve passed Gary Fencik to set a school mark for reception yardage in a season.

Yale bolted to a 14-0 lead in the game's first 16 minutes, scoring on a 32-yard John Rogan swing pass to Rich Diana at 14:21 of the first quarter. And 79 seconds later, after a Jim Callinan fumble, a 25-yard Rogan-to-Curt Grieve pass and a PAT put another seven points on the board for the Elis. The fumble, Callinan's second and Harvard's third of the afternoon, gave the Elis the ball on the Crimson 25, and it took Rogan just one play--a spiral to Grieve--to increase the lead to two touchdowns.

Earlier, Harvard had penetrated to the Yale 48 on five running plays spanning 22 yards before Callinan fumbled and Bulldog Greg Burkus recovered at midfield to douse the threat. The teams traded punts before Yale drove 46 yards in five plays, ending in the Rogan-to-Diana connection in a third-and-13 situation.

With seven minutes left in the second quarter, Harvard was awarded its best field position of the day, when Pat Fleming sacked Rogan on the Yale five yard line and the ensuring Tony Jones punt was downed on the Harvard 36.

But two plays later, the Crimson found itself back on the other side of midfield. Callinan lost four yards on a pitch, and then Yale's Serge Mahaly sacked Cuccia on the Harvard 49 for a loss of nine. Jim Villanueva punted on fourth and 23, but when Mahaly hit the sophomore after the punt, the Crimson picked up an automatic first down on the roughing-the-kicker penalty.

Two plays later, Donnie Allard hit Callinan for a 24-yard gain off the quarterback-in-motion play to move the ball to the Yale 16, but Harvard go no closer. After an intentional grounding call on Cuccia and an illegal procedure penalty set up a fourth-and-23 situation. Villanueva punted into the end zone and Yale took over on its 20.

After Diana scampered ten yards up the left sideline, a late-hit penalty on Harvard and a 15-yard Rogan-to-Bob Burkitt pass moved the Elis deep into Crimson territory.

But this time the Harvard defense held. With time winding down, Fleming sacked Rogan for a five-yard loss to move the ball back to the 38--out of field goal range--and when Rogan overthrew Grieves near the end zone on fourth and 12, the gridders recovered the ball on downs. One play later time ran out with the score at the half 14-0.