For Joe Montana and the San Francisco 49ers,five minutes is an eternity to erase a three-pointdeficit. For Lazarre-White and the Crimson, it isjust enough time to force a tie.

But Willinger didn't even let it do that.

Long Drives

Despite the extra pressure of an ineffectivepassing attack that yielded just 92 yards,Harvard's offensive line--missing Captain TomCallahan for the entire game and center DarrinDuda for the second half--was able to control theline of scrimmage.

Senior halfback Andy Bell--under pressurebecause of his tendency to fumble the ball--pickedup 89 yards to lead the Crimson's 187-yard rushingeffort.

"If your passing game is working, it forces thedefense to play honest," Bell said. "If youcomplete eight passes for 92 yards, they don'thave to stay honest."

On its first possession, the Crimson hadmarched 82 yards in 13 plays to take an early 7-0lead. A Lazarre-White seven-yard run on 3rd-and-7and two Andy Bell receptions for 39 yardshighlighted the possession, which culminated witha two-yard Bell scoring run.

In the third quarter, with Cornell holding thelead, 17-10, the Crimson churned out another longmarch--this time a 12-play, 76-yard effort--to tiethe game. Once again it was Bell who was thebulwark, carrying the ball four times for 29 yardsand the tying touchdown plunge.

On the defensive side of the ball, the Harvarddefense lived up to its stingy reputation despiteMcNiff's big gains on the ground. Although the BigRed rushed for 117 yards--including 90 byMcNiff--in the first half, the defense limitedCornell to a 24-yard field goal by Hepfer.

Three Minutes of Charity

But after intermission, the Harvard D joinedthe special teams unit in a generous three minutesof gift-giving. On the Big Red's first offensiveplay of the half, McNiff cut back against thegrain and broke through a bigger-than-Rhode Islandhole and pranced down the right sideline untouchedfor the tying score.

"It was a broken play," McNiff said. "It wassupposed to go right but I went left. Then I sawChris go right and said, 'Uh oh.' I think the flowof the defense was thrown off when I started thewrong way."

A flustered Jay Rideout and Colby Maher flubbedthe ensuing kickoff, which bounced off Rideout'sshoulder pads and into the hands of Cornell's RobLeven at the Harvard 21-yard line. Five Oliarorushes brought the ball down to the 3-yard line,where McNiff took it over for the go-ahead TD.Big Red, 20-17 at The Stadium

Cornell  0-3-14-3--20HARVARD  7-3-7-0--17