Brown at Harvard

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 18, 1962, page 34

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  Harvard Raps Brown; Taylor Gets4Scores CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. II CAP) .-Halfback Bill Taylor, a tranSplanted mid westerner from Minnesota, set a Harvard record today by scoring four touchdowns and leading the Crimson to a 31–⁠19 Ivy League football victory over Brown. Taylor, a senior scored on a 7-yard run, a 21-yard sweep, a 3-yard plunge and took a IT. yard scoring pass from Quarterback Mike Bassett to wind up his spree. Taylor’s four touchdowns were the most ever scored by a Harvard player in an Ivy League game. Harvard Captain Dick Diehl recovered a Brown tumble on the kickoff and five plays later Taylor scampered in from the seven. Brown came right back, going IA yards for a touchdown with Quarterback Jim Dunda spinning in from the /. Then came the Crimson ava lanche. Harvard started at the Brown 40 following a punt and two plays later Taylor followed a wall of blockers on a 21-yard scoring dash. Harvard took the second-half kickoff and moved 81 yards for a touchdown with Taylor cracking over from the 8. John Hartranft added a 19yard field goal before Taylor closed Harvard’s scoring for the day with the bomb from Bassett. Brown came in for some rec ord showing. Dunda’s 16 COM pletions were a school record and John Parry’s nine receptions established an Ivy League Mark.

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Harvard leads 78–⁠24–⁠2 in 104 meetings, counting the 42 since this game.