There was nowhere to look Saturday afternoon at the Stadium.

Look over here and you saw Harvard quarterback Mike Giardi's uniform lying in a clump behind the Harvard bench.

Look over there, and he was being carted away for X-rays.

Look back on the field, and his teammates were helping Holy Cross extend the nation's longest Division I and IAA winning streak to 13 games, bowing to the Crusaders, 28-13, before 16,215.

"I thought that we played as well as we will ever play this year at Army, and I thought we started the same way against Holy Cross," Harvard Coach Joe Restic said. "Going in we moved the ball well early. Mike threw the ball very, very well."

Giardi helped put the Crimson on the scoreboard first, firing an 11-yard touchdown pass to Robb Hirsch 12 minutes into the game.

The Crusaders came right back to tie the score in the opening minute of the second quarter. Holy Cross free safety Matt Morgan intercepted a Giardi pass intended for Colby Maher and returned it to the 18-yard line.

Two plays later Crusaders' quarterback Tom Ciaccio connected with Fred Givens at the six-yard line. Givens ran the ball in for the score.

From the looks of things, this game was going to be interesting--a passing duel between Giardi and Ciaccio.

Less than 10 minutes later, however, the passing contest was over when Giardi was forced to leave the game with a separated right shoulder, an injury that could sideline him for up to three weeks.

"It happened on a play that we ran, an option flanker," Giardi said. "I kept the ball and I hopped over a defensive end or a defensive back, and when I did, I think I lowered my shoulder and either a linebacker or a safety came in and put his helmet right into my shoulder.

"The next play I threw the ball and I felt a lot of pain. I realized I had nothing on it, but I thought it was something I could just shake off and play with it," Giardi added. "Then the next play after that I threw a deep pass, got hit and spun around, and just landed with my arm extended. It just didn't feel right. I knew I couldn't go on."

With Giardi on the sideline, Restic had to look to his bench, a prospect he did not relish.

"Mike's a talented quarterback," Restic said. You work all week with him, and in one play it just blows up in your face. I thought maybe we could get him back, but we couldn't.

"Then, you have to adjust and do what you can," Restic continued. "But in all fairness to the people who came in there and worked the game, I thought they did as well as they could possibly do based on the work they had."