Springfield at Harvard

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., September 23, 1951, page 1

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  Harvard Rally Whips Springfield, Il 10 Is CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Sept. %. Back in non-major competition for the first time in six years. Hardware opened its 18th football season with a 21–⁠13 victory over Springfield College today at the stadium. A skinny 10000 crowd saw the Crimson shake of a mild case Of first-game filters and come from behind by scoring once in the third and twice in the fourth Pc Iriod. Springfield’s capable Angelo IInsalaco, however, kept Harvard worried. He reeled off a S. yard touchdown run in the second quarter. Then. with only sec ands to 60, he raced “a yards to Harvard’s Al, from where Don ITeel hurled a scoring pass to End Chef Pilatowski. 1t took Harvard more than 40 minutes to really settle down. then, after a pass interception, it started a drive from its 33 that Dick Clasby ended by going over from Springf1eld’s courtyard line. Warren Wylie, one of the three Harvard passers in action, fed End Paul Crowley a 25-yard touchdown heave early in the finale. And, shortly after, Art French, jr., son of Harvard’s 1928 gridiron captain. clinched matters by smothering tumble in the Springfield end zone. Harvard ------------ 0 0 I 14–⁠2I ! Springfield scoring; touchdowns-Insalacot Pilatowski. Conversion--Zmmer. man Harvard scoring; touchdowns-Clssby. Crowley, French. Conversions--Lowen- stein, 8.

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Harvard leads 14–⁠0 in 14 meetings, counting the one since this game.