Another One

But with Army looking to score on its third straight possession, Dixon grabbed the spotlight. Healy had left with a shoulder injury near the end of the third quarter: when his replacement. Bill Turner, tried to hit tight end Mark Triplett near the sideline for a short gainer, Dixon just stepped in the way for the ninth-longest interception return in Crimson history.

Villanueva had a chance to break the tie with a second 47-yard field goal attempt--which also went far enough but to the right. But the next Crimson drive left him with a more manageable task: with 5:58 showing on the clock, he split the uprights to give Harvard the 24-21 edge.

With less than three minutes left, Army started a last-gasp drive, but when Turner lofted a pass too close to Garvin, the senior linebacker reached up to make the one-handed interception that put the game away.

Despite Garvin's strong game, in steadying the defense against the hurry-up Army attack and in nabbing the late pass, Crimson Coach Joe Restic's chief concern remains the injuries to the linebacker Garvin replaced, Andy Nolan, and several other first-stringers. Defensive lineman Bruno Perdoni and Barry Ford sat out Saturday's contest, as well as cornerback Brian Bergstrom and linebacker and Captain Joe Azelby.

THE NOTEBOOK: One stat very clearly in the Crimson's favor was time of possession--36:06 for Harvard, 23:54 for Army...Harvard gained 253 yards on the ground, but only 60 in the air...Colombo played the entire game and completed eight of 14 passes for 60 yards, with one interception....Harvard will take to the road for the first time next Saturday, travelling to Ithaca to meet winless Cornell....Defensive Coordinator George Clemens formerly held the same post at West Point....Defensive end Mark Mead also spent time in the enemy camp, living at West Point for seven years when his father, a colonel, taught there.