Yardling Gridders Beat Eagles With a Final Two-Point Play

Harvard's freshman football team upset Boston College, 21-20, last night in a game only college football fans could love.

Only in college football could coach Chet O'Neil opt to go for a two-point conversion and trade a tie for a win. And only in college football could quarterback Jim Kubacki fire a ten-yard bullet into Tom Lincoln's waiting arms to ice a cinderella victory.

Throughout the Alumni Stadium game Harvard showed an exuberance that withstood three go-ahead Eagle touchdowns.

The fourth period monopolized the excitement for the freezing fans. After trading touchdowns, in which B.C.'s extra point try failed, Harvard looked like it was on the tail end of a 20-14 loss.

But a ground-chewing effort by Tom Winn put quarterback Kubacki in fine field position for a TD aerial. Kubacki complied with a 10-yard spiral to halfback Reid Daumon, leaving coach O'Brien with his go for broke position. O'Brien, who admits, "We were in a pressure cooker," chose the two-point option that climaxed the successful effort.

O'Brien, who declared himself "speechless", said, "I'm very, very proud of my boys."