Yale Downs J.V. Football Squad; 90 Yard Drive Caps 13-8 Victory

The JV football team almost beat the favored Yale eleven yesterday. Leading 8 to 7 at the end of the third quarter, the Crimson finally gave in to a powerful Bulldog 90-yard drive in the fourth quarter which gave the Blue the nod, 13 to 8.

Bulldog quarterback Tim O'Connell gave the Crimson most of its trouble. In the third quarter, O'Connell passed five yards to halfback Chris Clark for the Bulldogs' first tally. The adopt quarterback then kicked the extra point to put the Yalies in front, 7 to 0.

In the big fourth quarter, O'Connell climaxed the 90-yard jaunt with a hard-driving two-yard run. His pass for the extra points failed, but that didn't matter-the Yale team had won its fourth straight game (having lost only one game-to Army-in the opener, 9 to 12).

Crimson coach Norm Shepard's eleven, led by quarterback Grady Watts (Chuck Kinney was out with a brain concussion), got its only TD in the third quarter, as the result of a 30-yard, four-play drive. Recovering a Yale fumble on the Blue 25-yard line, Watts took over.

But it wasn't a simple matter. The Crimson lost eight yards before it got going. After a little bit of fiddling around-with fourth and ten-Watts let loose with a pass to Billy Taylor that brought the ball to the Yale ten yard line.

After one play, Taylor ran eight yards around left end for the Crimson's only TD of the day. Watts threw to Taylor for the extra points, putting the Crimson in the lead 8 to 7.

But after the kick-off the Yalies took over on their own ten yard line, and kept the ball moving until they scored the winning touchdown.

The lose gave the Crimson a 5-3 final record. Harvard won its first five games, but then dropped its last three games against Princeton, Army, and Yale.