By the time Quincy House Master David Aloian '49 trotted onto the field, it was all academic.

With 38 seconds left in the House football championship game yesterday at Soldiers Field, the Q-House gridders already had more than enough points on the board to hold off the Eliot 11.

And although Quincy's aging placekicker missed his PAT attempt, his undefeated charges nonetheless blanked Eliot, 8-0, to cop the intramural title.

The red and gold Quincy wave rolled but never broke open the game against a gutsy Eliot squad. For the first three quarters of play the Q-manoids consistently drove to within striking distance without scoring, frustrating the 100 or so fans--most of them Quincy supporters--gathered on the sidelines.

The aerial combination of Quincy QB Ron Kind and all-purpose back T.J. Andre worked consistently in the first half, with Andre hauling in a number of key tosses to negate a strong Eliot defense.

Running back Jay McNamara did the bulk of the ground work for Quincy, and when Andre capped off a strong Q-House drive with a diving endzone catch early in the second quarter, it looked as though the Red and Gold would take an early lead.

A holding penalty nullified the score, however, so Quincy regrouped and tried again. But this time the stingy Eliot defense--which has anchored the 2-2 squad all season long--responded by stopping Quincy on downs at the 17.

After moving backwards three yards on three plays, however, Eliot was forced to punt. Three plays later, the charitable Quincy squad fumbled the ball back to its opponents.

Eliot House had the next turn in this game of gridiron hot potato, so on his first play from scrimmage quarterback Brian Hall--who admittedly did not have "a very good passing day"--lofted a bomb into the hands of Andre, who doubled as the Quincy safety. He returned the ball to his own 45, and the Q-House offense took the field with less than a minute left in the half.

Kind, aided by a roughing-the-passer penalty, drove his team down the field with completions to Andre and McNamara. Quincy lined up for a 30-yard field goal three seconds before halftime, but Eliot jumped offsides to get Quincy five yards closer.

Field general Kind then elected to go for six from the Eliot eight, but his bootleg run was stopped cold as time ran out on the first stanza.

Eliot took the second-half kickoff, and hard-nosed running back Mickey Voltz spear headed a strong offensive drive. But Voltz & Co. only got as far as the Quincy 45, where Hall fumbled the ball into the waiting arms of a swarming Quincy defensive line.

McNamara and shifty running back Adam Gorgoni led a grinding Quincy House series, which took only seven plays to bring the ball to the Eliot 27.

Turnovers were the order of the day, however, and this time Gorgoni was the goat, coughing up the ball to Kurt Chapman.

But Gorgoni went from goat to hero in a hurry. The Eliot offense was stymied on three plays, and with Chapman deep in his own end zone to punt, Gorgoni was ready to rush.