Down by 14 points, the Bulldogs tried to fight their way back into the game in the second quarter, driving into Harvard’s red zone.

Mere yards from the endzone, however, Cowan threw the ball straight into the arms of Williamson, who blazed the full length of the field for the touchdown.

“I just dropped back in the zone where I was supposed to be. He must not have seen me, because he threw it right to me,” Williamson said.

Williamson led the Crimson defense with 11 tackles and added a sack for a five-yard loss.

In the third quarter, the increasingly desperate Bulldogs failed to convert on fourth down as a bevy of Harvard’s defenders smothered Cowan yards behind the line of scrimmage.

The Crimson held Yale to six of 17 third-down conversions, one for four on fourth down and three points in three red zone appearances. “[Harvard is] a great football team, a great team on both sides of the ball,” Siedlecki said. “They made play after play after play. We didn’t.”