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The Football Notebook

He needs eight points to pass Mike Lynch '77 for fourth place.

And finally, senior fullback Robert Santiago needs 233 yards to become the fifth leading rusher in Crimson hsitory and 245 yards to become the fourth leading rusher.

He needs 256 yards to join White among the top five all-time on the total offense list.

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Funny line of the week came from Harvard Coach Joe Restic, who said after Saturday's 25-17 win at Brown that there was absolutely "no question" Chris Ingerslev's field goal attempt with 5:09 remaining to play was no good.

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The officials ruled that the Bruin kicker's attempt--which hit the uprights and bounced off--was wide. That set off a furious protest from the entire Bruin squad, and raised the eyebrows of almost everyone in the stadium.

Except, of course, for Joe Restic.

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Answer to this week's trivia question: Frank Champi replaced George Lalich--who threw for a touchdown and a conversion and ran for another touchdown to spark the victory over Holy Cross--in The Game.

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THE NOTEBOOK'S NOTEBOOK: Harvard has won all three of its games that started at 1 p.m. It is 2-2 in games that started at 1:30 p.m...Three season-ending victories would give Harvard eight victories in one season for the first time since the Ivy championship season of 1968...The Crimson has not won the eighth game of the season in each of the last two seasons...Harvard is 3-0 against the teams Holy Cross is 1-1-1 against this year...The Crimson has converted 40 of 113 third down conversion attempts for a 35.4 percentage...Harvard will face its first 1000-yd. rusher of the season Saturday in Crusader Gill Fenerty...Santiago scored two rushing touchdowns Saturday. That was the first time since the season opener at Columbia last season that he had pulled that feat...Brent Wilkinson recorded his second career interception Saturday, and his first since that same Columbia game last year.

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THE PICKS: Harvard over Holy Cross, William & Mary over Princeton, Penn over Colgate, Richmond over Brown, Dartmouth over Columbia, Yale over Cornell. Last Week: 4-0. Season to Date: 30-7.

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The Football Notebook Appears Every Tuesday in The Harvard Crimson.

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