tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193444339911574734.post300498153903363975..comments2024-02-14T13:01:44.087-06:00Comments on Bob Lemke's Blog: My '55-style card honors Tommy Lee Jones' college football careerBob Lemkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161159323885411503noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193444339911574734.post-20509498877451810162015-07-27T16:47:11.288-05:002015-07-27T16:47:11.288-05:00In the 1968 Harvard-Yale football game, was played...In the 1968 Harvard-Yale football game, was played at our venerable Harvard Stadium on North Harvard Street, in Allston, MA, which is located across the river from Harvard's main campus in Cambridge, MA.<br /><br />Yale came into the game with a 16-game winning streak and its quarterback, Brian Dowling, had lost just one game, as a starter, since he was in the sixth grade. <br /><br />Led by Brian Dowling and Calvin Hill, Yale relatively quickly got up 22-0. With less than one minute to play, Yale still led 29-13. As the final seconds ticked down, Harvard, however, superbly coached by John Yovicsin, whose Harvard tenure spanned 1957 to 1970, where he compiled a career record of 110–53–5, tied the game, scoring 16 points in the final 42 seconds. At the gun, however, the miracle final score was Harvard 29, Yale 29. <br /><br />Calvin Hill would go on to become the very first Ivy League football player selected in a 1st Round NFL draft.<br />Not to be outdone, Harvard's quarterback, Frank Champi, who had the better passing arm than first string QB Frank Lalich, played a superb game, after he suddenly got the nod from Coach Yovicsin, who was confronted by the looming 22 point deficit on the big board.<br /><br />The "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29" mantra comes from the front page banner headline featured on The Harvard Crimson student newspaper's next day edition. In 2010, ESPN ranked this game #9 in its list of the top ten college football ties of all time. And this game stands as the final tie in Ivy League play; subsequent rule changes have eliminated ties from college football.<br /><br />See the movie by the same name, it's superb, and will introduce you to my teammates. You should've been there; the roar of the crowd was deafening and it could be heard over the pounding of your heart!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com