Crowley and Monteith Continue Their Streaks

As a result of Saturday's victory, the football team now boasts a two-game winning streak. Not since the 1948 squad beat Brown and Yale on successive Saturdays has a Harvard team won as many as two straight games.

Of even greater significance to 1952 fans was the fine performance of Crimson tailback Dick Clasby. It is now quite clear that Clasby is "one of the best running backs you've ever seen." (The words are those of Colgate Coach Hall Lahar.)

Although he did run up 138 yards--in 30 tries--showing well all the time, Clasby looked even better as a punter. He averaged 42 yards on four punts; an exceptional record.

Actually, it was a good day for the runners. Colgate's Al Simmons showed little effects of his two-way performance, ripping off 7.6 yards per carry. Most of Simmons' gains resulted from the split-T pitchout play which Colgate used very effectively.

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Fans who missed the Washington game got another chance to see Bob Stargel's tackle-around play. This time, though, Stargel lost two yards. At that, he still owns a 12.5 yard average, better than any other Crimson ball-carrier.

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End Paul Crowley caught a John Ederer pass for the Crimson's second touchdown, and thus scored in his fifth straight game, starting with the Yale contest last year. Bill Monteith's three extra points gave that left-footed booter a record of 13 conversions in 14 tries this year, the last ten consecutively.

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Aside from the fabulous first period, the high point of the game for local fans was the fourth-quarter interception runback by Sammy Fyock. Actually, line-backer Ron Messer picked off the pass. Swamped by Colgate tacklers, Messer flipped backwards to Fyock, who started for the end zone. But, as someone remarked later, there were "too many blockers," and Fyock was forced out of bounds short of paydirt.

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Those 21 first-period points were more than Colgate had yielded in all three previous games.