Giardi rushed for a career-high 103 yards, the first 100-yard game since Matt Johnson '91's 323-yard performance against Brown the previous year.
November 13: Pennsylvania 21, Harvard 19--The question going in was whether the Brown game was an aberration or a trend.
It was a trend.
Penn had coaching and talent (read: senior running back Sundiata Rush), but Harvard hung tough with some great running of its own--namely, Giardi's new career-high total of 114 yards.
The Crimson never led, but had a long shot to win--literally and figuratively--on Hall's 50-yard field goal attempt.
Hall missed, but the game established Harvard in the Ivy League as a 200-pound bodybuilder instead of a 98-pound pushover.
Today: Yale's a 200-pound team, too.
But Harvard's peaking at the right time. Big Mo is backing Restic and his troops. But then again, Big Mo has also backed George Bush and look what it did for him.
In The Game--like playing the lottery, driving down the street and Final Jeopardy--anything can happen.