It soon looked like Harvard's comeback would go for naught, courtesy of Dowling and the Yale defense. The star QB scampered in for another touchdown around right end, this time from 15 yards, to put Yale ahead, 29-13, with 10:44 left in The Game.

Things looked pretty bleak when the Elis stopped the Crimson on fourth down just a minute later, but Champi had not yet performed his heroics.

Champi got the ball back on his own 14-yd. line with less than four minutes remaining and marched the Crimson downfield. He hit Freeman for a 15-yard touchdown pass to make it 29-17.

Harvard needed a two-point conversion to cut the lead to eight, and the comeback appeared to come up short when Champi's pass to Varney for the conversion was incomplete. But the officials ruled that Yale had interfered with the receiver, giving the Crimson a second chance. Crim bulled over on the next attempt to take advantage of the Eli mistake and keep Harvard alive.

The Crimson's hopes then rested on the on-side kick Kenny Thomas booted the ball short to Yale's Bradford Lee, who later became the Associate, Professor of History here.

Lee was promptly separated from the ball by a Joe McKinney hit, and Bill Kelley recovered the fumble on the Yale 49.

Destiny drove Champi down to the eight-yd line, where the QB hit Gatto in the right corner of the end zone for the touchdown which brought Harvard within two points as time ran out.

"When I saw it, I knew I had to love it," Gatto said after The Game. "Just take it in my arms and love it."

Champi then sent end Pete Varney into the same spot of the end zone for the two-point conversion which tied The Game and broke the hearts of the 15,000 Yale fans in attendance.

Champi became immortalized as one of the greatest heroes in Harvard sports history, as the Crimson's headline of the next day blared, "HARVARD BEATS YALE, 29-29."