Army at Harvard

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  Evening star, October 21, 1951, page 42

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  Safety Proves Edge AS Cadets Suffer 4th Straight Loss CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Oct. 20.- Harvard’s young hopefuls sub jected Army’s winless football remnants to their fourth straight setback by the tight margin Of 22–⁠21 today at the Stadium. The Crimson youngsters scored their first major victory OF the season after converting a blocked Army punt into a second-period safety. Defensive Quarterback Bob Hardy thrilled the skimpy $4,000 crowd by smearing Freddie Attaya when he attempted q boot from Army’s Is. The ball bounced into the Cadets end zone before At taya could smother it. At the outset Army’s eager forces appeared to be finding themselves after three rather huinitiating setbacks. They launched a drive from their 20. which At taya ended by going through his right guard on a quick opener for 48 yards and the games first touchdown. Harvard Scores on Pass. Harvard’s aerial attack, how ever, got going early in the second period and Johnny Tulenko put his team back in the game by clicking with a 10-yard touch down pass to Winger Paul Crow ley. The highly significant safety and Fullback Johnny Culver’s two-yard scoring slam followed soon after to give the Crimson the upper hand. Army, however. closed the first half in stirring fashion by Climax ing an 80-yard march with a 25yard scoring pass from Pete Vann to end Ray Tensfeldt and the second of Dick Reich’s three conversions limited Harvard’s half time lead to 15–⁠14. An Army tumble enabled Harvard to cash a 26yard drive for its third touchdown early in the third session. Dustin Burke fumbled in the Army end zone after 2-yard plunge but Team mate Art Pappas, an eagle-eyed guard, smothered the loose ball. Cadets Show Courage. Despite a long series of disappointing breaks. the Cadets refused to become discouraged and their hopes Zoomed early in the finale when defensive Ends Neil Chamberlain and Ron Lincoln blocked and recovered Gil O’Neil’s punt on Harvard’s 6. Carl Guess plunged over on his first try and Reich booted handsomely to again shave the Harvard lead to a single point. with 9 minutes to- go. Four more minutes passed before the Cadets could gain pos. session of the ball and launch “a desperate closing drive after Don Fuqua returned punt q yards to Arrny’s 81. But Har. wards Don Cass dashed the Ca. dets’ hopes by batting down the doc pass that Vann tossed on the Crimson’s 43 on fourth down and six to 60. Army -- Q 7–⁠2l Army scoring: Touchdowns-Attaya Tensfeldt, Guess. Conversions-Reich t3t Harvard scoring: Touchdowns-Crowley Culver, Burke Conyersions-Monteitf (t2). Safety-Hardy.

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Harvard leads 19–⁠18–⁠2 in 39 meetings, counting the seven since this game.