Dallas Cans Orange Crush, 27-10, In Super Bowl

Hundreds of Harvard students took a few hours off last night from the rigors of reading period to watch the Dallas Cowboys whip the Denver Broncos 27-10 in the Super Bowl.

predominantly male crowd watched the game in the Freshman Union, reacting vocally when the Broncos made a good play. "The vocal people are for Denver. The vocally anti-vocal people are for Dallas," one freshman noted.

The freshmen spectators cited several reasons to forsake their studies for the Super Bowl. "It's a lesson in sociology." Daniel Esty '81 said. "Any time you get three-quarters of the country to do something it has to be important."

"It's more exciting than writing my Danish paper," Jeffrey Hoyt '81 said. Hoyt, a Denver partisan, watched the game only when the Broncos had the ball, preferring the lure of the pinball machines the rest of the time.

Eva Plaza '80, the only female watching the game in the Union, rooted for Dallas because she comes from Texas. She

It was not the thriller it was supposed to be, but Super Bowl XII was, nonetheless, a game full of SUPERlatives.

It was a Dallas pass rush that was too quick for Craig Morton, who was too slow. It was the strong Orange Crush defense that had to play too much, despite proving too tough for Tony Dorsett. There were too many penalties and too many hits that were too hard for too many people.

Comedy of Errors

But the final outcome was all Cowboys, as the Doomsday II defense outdid the Bronco I offense, and Dallas brought home their second world championship, overcoming a contest of miscues for a 27-10 victory.

The first half showed what many had suspected: Craig Morton, with a bad hip, was no match for Harvey Martin and "Too Tall" Jones. The Dallas defensive ends made Morton their favorite target and closed down all Denver attempts at an offense. In the first period, Denver managed just eight yards total offense: five rushing and three passing.

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Students Watch Super Bowl XII

Students Watch Super Bowl XII