“I think that’s the first time all year we’ve been under center,” Winters said of the first play on that drive. “It just started with a little QB sneak ... Our O-line did a fantastic job tonight. Having three 100-yard rushers, a lot of that is up to them.”

Dartmouth never recovered after that drive and failed to generate offensive momentum for the rest of the game.

“[That 99-yard drive] hurts,” Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens said. “That’s a critical drive for them, and credit to them. They were flawless with their execution [and] mixed up their play selection well.”

With the game already moving out of reach, Harvard added three more touchdowns in the third quarter, and it was another one-yard Scales run with under a minute in the frame that pushed the team above the 40-point plateau once again.

Of the 15 snaps on that drive, 13 were run plays.

“Coming into the game, we expected bad weather, and we knew we had to establish the run game,” said senior offensive lineman Kevin Murphy. “The O-line tries to pride itself on being the toughest, most physical guys on the team … and we knew we had to execute.”

As a whole, the team ran for 395 yards, averaging 7.2 yards per carry.

Although Harvard and Dartmouth played under the lights, the official attendance of the game was only 6,029—by far the Crimson’s lowest home attendance this year. The actual number of people at the game was likely fewer than that.

But even with rough conditions and a revamped game plan, Harvard moved one game closer to capturing the Ivy crown.

“On Monday, the weather forecast was 20 percent precipitation,” Tim Murphy said. “On Wednesday, it was about 40. By Friday, we were going to have the storm of the century. So we changed our game plan about three times.”

—Staff writer E. Benjamin Samuels can be reached at samuels@college.harvard.edu.