The Mountain Hawks never let up, using superior team speed on defense to keep the pressure on and relying on Hall--who completed 24-of-38 passes for 305 yards and three touchdowns--on offense.
Though the Crimson narrowed the score to 10-6 at the end of the first quarter, even Harvard's lone touchdown of the first half was the result of a lucky break.
After a Lehigh field goal with 2:10 to go in the first half, Leiszler returned the kickoff to the Harvard 25-yard line. On the first play of the drive the Crimson spread the field with three wide receivers and Rose found sophomore wide receiver Kyle Cremarosa at the Harvard 38-yard line.
Harvard then gave the ball to Leiszler who gained five and then 10 yards on consecutive plays.
At the Lehigh 47, on first-and-10, Rose dropped back and found Taylor over the middle between three Lehigh defenders. Taylor got hit hard by all three Mountain Hawks and should have been tackled, but none of the defensive backs held on to Taylor, who bounced off the vicious hit and, with the help of some good downfield blocking, ran into the end zone.
Harvard muffed the snap on the extra point attempt, and holder Cremarosa's desperation pass attempt fell short.
Even the touchdown play accentuated the difficulties that Harvard had with the Lehigh defense.
"Lehigh has lots of team speed on defense," Murphy said. "Their defensive backs were fast and they gave us very little margin for error in the passing game."
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