“I know we’ve come out flat a couple times where we don’t start playing them until the third or fourth quarters,” Iannuzzi said. “Unfortunately, when you come out flat, you put yourself in a bad spot, and it’s really tough to recover.”

Out of the title hunt, the team turned its focus to The Game.

The Crimson found itself down 14-7 at the half. But with Harvard receiving at the start of the third quarter, Iannuzzi returned the kickoff 84 yards for the touchdown to tie the game. The Crimson would score two more unanswered touchdowns and ended the year on a 28-21 win.

The victory was not only the fourth in a row for Harvard over the Bulldogs, but it also was the ninth time in the last ten years that the Crimson has taken The Game from the Elis.

“I think it’s a really great [source] of pride for our class, [and] I think a lot of the alums and any Harvard football fans are really proud of that,” Iannuzzi said. “It’ll always be something we remember, sweeping Yale. It’s one of the biggest rivalries ever, and we’re glad to accomplish that.”

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