Columbia at Harvard

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  Evening star, October 5, 1952, page 67

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  Columbia Wins, 16–⁠7, As Price and Ward .Rip Harvard Defense CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Oct. A. End AL Ward collaborated with Mitch Price, Columbia’s passing ace, in highly effective fashion today to give the Lions a 16 to 7 Ivy League football trimph over vastly improved Harvard team. Ward enabled the Lions to register their first points of the season after eight seconds of sec ond quarter action. He crashed through when Dick Clasby tried to punt from Harvard’s one-yard line and bounced the ball through for an automatic safety. Harvard was forced to kick from its 20 and Sophomore Bob Mercier returned the ball 81 yards to Harvard’s II. Then Price raced for the Lions first touchdown. Less than seven minutes later, Price fed Ward a series of three over-the-line passes. the last one going for a touchdown. Early in the third, ClaSby caught the Lions mapping with a quick kick that rolled far beyond Bob Mccullough, Columbia safety. .>-. He gave it long chase and then bobbled the ball on his q to give Harvard the first of it’s two Scoring chances. .. After a line smash made two yards, John Ederer rif1ed pass to Paul Crowley, who went over from the five. Columbia --o 16 Ole Harvard O 7 o. z Columbia scoring Touchdowns. Price. Ward. Safety, Ward (blocked kick. Conversions, Ward . Harvard scoring: Touchdown. Crowley. Conversion. Monteith

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Harvard leads 48–⁠13–⁠1 in 62 meetings, counting the 51 since this game.