Only one Harvard player ever had a play on the speedy Urquhart, but a good move left safety man Lee Oldenburg on the ground at the Harvard 15 and Urquhart was the new hero.

"You can see it as soon as you catch it," Urquhart said amongst the shouts of his jubilant teammates after the game. "There was a 20-yard gap and then all you've got to do is beat the safeties."

"They took the kick off right up the gut and knocked out the four and five men [the two middle men]," Harvard Captain Brent Wilkinson said.

Back in the Beginning

The game had started on solid footing, a Steinberg kick deep in the end zone, but gradually wound its way toward its exotic and frenetic conclusion. All along, the emphasis was on the kicking game, but the finale was an ending no one could have forseen.

For the first 55 minutes the two teams could manage very little sustained offense. Neither squad penetrated the opposition 13.

"We had bad field position so many times," Rogerson said. "When you're going against a really outstanding defense like that, they have you backed up, they force mistakes and all of a sudden you're in third-and-long, and they're dictating to you what you can and cannot do."

The defenses shut the offenses down on downs time after time, so the punters went to work. And for the most part, Steinberg and Tiger Rob DiGiacomo were nailing the ball despite an unpredictable swirling wind in the Stadium.

Air Traffic Controllers

The Crimson secondary shut down highly-touted Tiger quarterback Doug Butler, who had trouble connecting with his receivers. The defensive backs and strong pressure from the front five held Butler to a 13-for-36 outing for just 161 yards.

On the ground, Princeton was equally ineffective, as its run-oriented Wing-T offense could manage only 118 yards.

The Princeton defense, meanwhile, also enjoyed an outstanding afternoon and a particularly fine second half. The Tigers held the Crimson to minus 20 yards rushing after intermission, and All-Ivy fullback Robert Santiago (68 yards for the day) to zero yards in the second half.

Crimson quarterback Brian White picked up almost as many yards as Butler (158) on a seven-for-18 Saturday, but the senior signalcaller was under constant pressure from a fearsome Princeton rush all day. The Tiger line sacked White eight times and stalled countless Crimson drives with its relentless pressure.

Few points were surrendered as the defenses dominated and the punters battled for field position. After an early Steinberg miss, the Crimson senior and Princeton's Goodwin traded second-quarter field goals. Steinberg added another at 12:36 to give the hosts a 6-3 advantage.

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