In the end, a great quarterback defeated a great defense.

Colgate's great quarterback, Ryan Vena, perhaps the best player in Division I-AA, geared up for a final drive at 1:24 with the score tied, 21-21.

The Harvard defense, great all day, needed one more stop to send the game into sudden death.

Senior linebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski, as always, led his troops onto the field, waving his hands in the air. He was fired up as the Crimson had just scored two improbable touchdowns in the fourth quarter--a stunning turnaround that the defense needed to cap off.

But it had nothing left to give.

The cool and calm Vena took the . He hit two 17-yard passes and ran for 25 more putting together a 63-yard drive. As time expired, Erich Kutschke's field goal sailed through the uprights.

"I said if we held Colgate to 21 points, we were gonna win," Harvard Coach Tim Murphy said. "[Colgate]is going to get yardage, but the key was to keep them out of the end zone."

Colgate certainly got its yards--487 of them--but don't believe the numbers. The Crimson defense had a spectacular day against Vena's explosive offense.