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In Defense of the Best Offense

The Football Notebook

Hinz (35 receptions, 497 yards) joined tight end Don Gajewski (37 receptions for 477 yards) and wideout Neil Phillips (33 receptions for 576 yards). It is the first time in Harvard history that more than two players on the same team have hauled in 30 passes.

Although the receivers have impressive numbers, Harvard had trouble getting the ball to them last weekend. Perry, in his first start, completed 11 of 28 passes for 100 yards, but only three (for 15 yards) were completed to non-running backs.

Gajewski caught only one pass for three yards, while Phillips, a co-captain on the basketball team, was shut out. Harvard has had problems getting the ball to Phillips since quarterback Tom Yohe went out with a leg injury against Brown. Phillips has caught only two passes for seven yards the last two weeks.

Phillips' basketball buddy, Kevin Collins, caught the first two passes of his career for 12 yards against Penn.

Two Bagels, Please: Whenever the Penn band plays "Drink a Highball," one of the Quakers' school songs, it has become a tradition for Franklin Field fans to throw toast on the field in response to the last line of the song, "Here's a toast to dear old Penn."

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Last year, however, the administration outlawed the ceremony, and said toast could not be brought into the stadium after the new track, which encircles the football field, was completed.

"They called it a hazard to the track," said Jon Wilner, Sports Editor for The Daily Pennsylvanian. "People started taping toast to their bodies, so the administration finally changed its policy. They said the toast was okay, but no bagels were to be allowed."

Students decorated the track with an estimated 12,000 pieces of toast last weekend.

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