The team continued to play well through the next three weeks of the season, although not quite up to the Princeton game standards.

First, it finally put in a good performance on the road at Dartmouth, only to lose on a great comeback by the Big Green and its star quarterback, Jay Fiedler.

Then it traveled to Brown and, although playing decently, got beat by a fired-up Bear contingent, 43-29.

And finally, the team returned home for its final game against Penn. In Joe Restic's last game, it played well and hard, but lost again, 27-20. It was disappointing, sure, but heck, at least there was still The Game.

The Game came and it was a beauty. In a plot similar to that of the The Game of all Games 25-years earlier, the Crimson found itself down by 16 with six minutes left, only to score two touchdowns to make it close. But Harvard did not repeat the legendary 1968 tie, failing to convert a two-point conversion after the first of its touchdowns. Once again a good, hard effort went unrewarded as the Bulldogs won, 33-31.

Afterwards, Giardi, the engineer on the comeback, walked around the field aimlessly, looking stunned.

Asked later what he was thinking, he replied: "I was just thinking how fitting it was that the season would end like that. Finally, in the end, The Game was like all those other games--it just got away."

FOOTBALL

Record: 3-7

Ivy League: 1-6

Key Players: Mike Giardi (114-244-1, 734 pass., 123-451 rush.), Mark Cote (116-569 rush.), Brian Ramer (99 tackles)

Key Seniors: Mike Giardi, Brian Ramer, Mark Begert, Chris Andre, Peter Cahill, Jae Ellis, Nick Isaacson, Joseph McClellan, Bill Madden