Brown at Harvard

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 18, 1956, page 77

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  Brown Sophs Lead Upset OF Hurvurd CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. II IR.-Brown rocked inept Harward in q 21–⁠12 Ivy League foot ball contest today, with Sophie lmores Frank Finney and Jack McTigue combining for the Bruins touchdowns. Finney ran nine yards for one score and tossed a 34-yard screen pass play to McTigue for an other. McTigue added the third score on a plunge from a foot away. The Bruins surrendered a sec Iond-period score to the Crimson before opening UP to nail down their third Ivy triumph against four losses. Finney. a 170-pounder from Royal Oak. Mich, marched his team SO yards with the kickoff following Harvard’s short-lived 60 lead, He covered “a yards on two runs and completed three passes for %. From the nine, Finney could find no open re- Iceivers. swung wide to his right and just made the corner of the end zone. Martin Moran’s conversion gave Brown a 7–⁠6 lead. MeTigue took Finney’s screen pass on the sideline in the third period and completed the Imasterful 34-yard maneuver. After McTigue plunged across to cap a 58-yard advance at the start of the fourth period, Harvard managed a closing score, Center Marv Lebovitz blocked Ed Lapinsky’s attempted punt, picked up the loose ball and ran the remaining % yards. Brown --- o z z z 81 Harvard 0 @ o 6–⁠12 Brown scoring; uchdowns-Finney | 30, run1, McTigue : (34, pass-runs from Finney; l. plunse) Conversions Harvard scorins: TouchdownslSimourian a, plungel, Lebovitz (2S blocked punt.

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Harvard leads 78–⁠24–⁠2 in 104 meetings, counting the 48 since this game.