Brate and Juszczyk are now first and third on the squad, respectively, with 269 and 213 yards receiving on the year.

“[They provide] a tough matchup for a lot of safeties and linebackers,” Murphy said. “We’re getting a lot of good looks to Cam and Juice.”

D-OMINANT

Though Chapple shined and the offense put up 42 points, it was truly the defense that set the tone in the Crimson win.

On the afternoon, Harvard forced five turnovers, had eight tackles for loss, gave up just 140 total yards (minus five on the ground), and allowed only five Bison first downs. Three of those came in the fourth quarter, when the backups were in and the game was out of reach.

It was an absolutely dominant performance by the front seven, with Harvard applying incessant pressure on Bison QB Brandon Wesley, who had no time to throw behind his overmatched offensive line.

“That was one of the better front fours I’ve seen at this level of college football,” Bucknell coach Joe Susan said.

Wesley threw four interceptions, the first of which Crimson senior Brian Owusu snagged at the Harvard 25 and ran back 58 yards. Midway through the third quarter, freshman end Zach Hodges batted a ball up in the air that was grabbed by junior linebacker Brian Reilly at midfield for the second Crimson pick.

Freshman Norman Hayes and sophomore Chris Splinter would later intercept Wesley at the goal line on consecutive fourth-quarter drives, keeping Bucknell out of the end zone.

The Crimson now has the best turnover margin in the Ancient Eight.

“Our defense never gave them a chance today,” Murphy said. “[We] just put a stranglehold on them.”

—Staff writer Scott A. Sherman can be reached at ssherman13@college.harvard.edu.