An inspired Crusader defensive line pressured and harrassed Landau all afternoon, giving the second-time starter little time to find his receivers and forcing him to throw into traffic.
"You can't judge the quarterback position on one game, you must consider it over the long haul," Restic said. "Landau will get the job done for us. I have no question about that."
Before the end of the second quarter, the Cross struck twice more, this time within a 47-second span, with the aid of a beautifully-executed onside kick.
After Wiley hit Lee Hull with a 28-yd. scoring strike down the middle to put the Cross ahead 21-0, Holy Cross special-teamer Mike Falite recovered teammate Billy Young's perfectly placed onside kick. Lockbaum then took over, breaking off right guard to turn a short gain into a 37-yd. advance down to the Harvard nine and then running for the score on the very next play from scrimmage.
In all, Lockbaum rushed the ball 13 times for148 yards (an average of 11.3 yards per carry) andtwo touchdowns. He also caught five passes for 83yards (16.6 yards per reception) and anothertouchdown.
Lockbaum--who had runs of 45, 37, and 32 yardsand a pass reception for 33 yards--combined powerwith finesse, escaping many would-be tacklers withhis strength and eluding numerous others with hiscross-field cuts.
Harvard just could not get its offense ontrack, never advancing the ball inside the HolyCross 30-yd. line in the first half.
While the Harvard defense struggled in thesecond quarter, the third quarter was theoffense's time to stumble.
Three times the Crimson took control of thefootball to open drives, and three times Landauwas intercepted. The last two of those errantpasses came on the second play of the drives.
Landau marched his troops down to the Crusader10-yd. line near the start of the quarter, but thesenior signal-caller was then sacked andintercepted in the endzone on consecutive playsfrom scrimmage.
Harvard didn't re-enter Holy Cross territoryfor the remainder of the third frame.
Landau was picked off again on Harvard's firstpossession of the fourth quarter, thus completinga string of four Holy Cross interceptions on fourHarvard possessions.
Enter reserve signal-caller Bill Koehler.Inserted into the game on the Crimson's secondpossession of the fourth quarter, Koehler was hitin the backfield for an eight-yd. loss on hisfirst play from scrimmage.
That was the least of his problems.
After two short drives resulting in Ray O'Harepunts. Koehler was intercepted on each ofHarvard's next three possessions. The last one,again picked off by Holy Cross in its own endzone,wiped out Harvard's second and final legitimatescoring threat of the afternoon.
First-year Crusader Coach Mark Duffner did notendear himself to Harvard fans in his Stadiumdebut.
Duffner continually signaled in pass plays withhis squad ahead 41-0 in the fourth quarter, at onepoint calling 10 consecutive pass plays with theCross ahead by six touchdowns.