Quincy Blasts Yalies, 20-6, Takes Tackle Crown

Feel proud, Quincy House tackle football squad. With yesterday's 20-6 drubbing of Yale's Berkeley-Calhoun College, you can rightfully claim the title of intramural football champion of the Ivy League.

Hey, don't even stop at the Ivies--make it the entire East Coast. And considering the limited number of schools which actually sanction intramural tackle football, extend that to national champions.

In fact, since they only play American football right here in North America, Quincy House may be termed the bonafide world champions of the sport.

Sort of makes your blood tingle, doesn't it, to have a real world champion squad right here at Harvard. Look out, Big 10.

The other Harvard House athletic teams gave their Yale counterparts an equally rude welcome to Cambridge, winning 21 of 28 matches--including four of the five championships--yesterday afternoon in the intramural jamboree at Soldiers Field.

The Eli squads, depleted by no-shows and weary from the northern migration (many Yale participants arrived with suitcase in hand), suffered from a lack of depth.

Following the Q-world example, the Kirkland, South, Winthrop, and Currier tackle football elevens shut out their opponents from New Haven. All of the gridders echoed the sentiments of South House coach Terry Trumball, "The Soho rebels will be back. We'll get Quincy next year."

Q-world's Lon Hatamiya and company even made it look easy, crushing the Yale tackle football champions and upping their season record to a perfect 6-0.

Calhoun-Berkeley grabbed the momentum early, driving all the way down to the Quincy 20 before coughing the ball up on an interception at the 15.

Quincy showed who really had control of the game on the very next drive, its first possession of the game. With Hatamiya calling the plays and backs Joe Scipione, Steve Nichols, and Jim "Greased Lightning" Rosenfeld taking turns carrying the ball, the Q-World legions drove easily up to midfield.

Then, in a fourth and four situation, Hatamiya rolled out under heavy pressure, and finally spotted Rosenfeld open behind the line of scrimmage. Hatamiya floated a quickie over to the halfback, who gathered it in and streaked 55 yards down the right sideline for the score. "It was just a wall of blockers," Rosenfeld said later.

A key John Gargaro interception at the goaline stopped the Yalies on their next drive, and by the time his runback ended he had advanced the ball to the Quincy 35.

Hatamiya then showed the form which lifted Quincy over South House in last week's House championship game, hitting receiver par excellence Art "the Quincy Clipper" O'Keefe for 40 big yards. A pass interference call on the next play gave Quincy the ball on the Calhoun five, but after Nichols bulled to the one, a Hatamiya fumble squelched the drive, and the half ended with Quincy up 6-0.

Another potential Quincy scoring drive self-destructed with a fumble on the Calhoun 40. The turnover wasted another long Hatamiya-to-O'Keefe completion, this one for 25 yards. Hatamiya hit his favorite receiver five times on the day for a total of 138 yards.

Although Quincy dominated the play all afternoon at the Webster Field Snow Bowl, things looked a little tight when the invaders from New Haven tied the score at 6-6 late in the third quarter. The key play on that drive was a Mark Michalowski to Jack Stauffer 35-yard scoring strike.

Continuing the afternoon-long pattern of Q-miscues deep in the opposing zone, on the Q-manoids' next possession Michalowski picked off an errant pass at the goal line. Quincy got the ball right back on the Calhoun 28, thanks to a fumble.

A couple of nice Hatamiya aerials, including a screen to Nichols which resulted in a nimble 20 yard scoring dance, quickly put Quincy ahead to stay, 12-6.

To cap the world championship season, Hatamiya hit O'Keefe again, this time on a perfect 30-yard home run scoring bomb.

"We're untied, unbeaten, and unreal," said defensive standout Chris Dilworth. Noseguard Paul Rozak echoed his sentiments, declaring, "This is the beginning of a new era. Quincy is going to be the new jock house of Harvard."

In other tackle football action, Brad Lown plunged over the endline and Mike Ryan connected with split end Bruce Herzfelder for the Kirkland touchdowns in K-House's 14-0 blanking of Timothy Dwight-Stillman. From the sidelines, Coach Haywood Miller said, "Everyone was psyched for Yale. They were undermanned but sucked it up well."

After Rick Gallito powered off tackle to give South a 7-0 lead, Joe Auteri and tight end Jake Cheney exchanged roles on a flea-flicker in the second half. Auteri handed off to Cheney on an apparent end-around, but the talented pass receiver faded back and lofted a 25 yd. touchdown toss to the wide open Auteri.

Too Dull

Currier needed only a 55 yd. touchdown completion from Jon Ealy to Keith Woods to dump Stiles-Morse 6-0. And as the sun set on this season's House football action, John Marston, Aaron Dean, and Wayne McDuffy scored touchdowns in Winthrop-Leverett's 19-0 sinking of Davenport-Pierson.

In men's soccer competition, Mather House, led by Marco Elser's pair of goals and an impermeable defense, defeated Pearson College, 2-1, in the championship match. After the game, Else said, "We're looking forward to a Mather dynasty." Harvard registered seven victories in the nine soccer contests.

Season in a Season

Jenny White tallied the only goal of the entire soccer event (Kirkland won by default and Lowell battled Jonathan Edwards to a scoreless deadlock in the other games) to power Quincy over Davenport-Pierce, 1-0, in the battle of champions. The Q-women dragged coach Dave Jackson through the mud to celebrate the triumph.

The Bulldogs, unaccustomed to Harvard's no-lineman rule, fared no better in men's and co-ed touch football. The Eliot 26-14 drubbing of Stillman led the Harvard teams to four wins against one loss by forfeit in men's touch. Stillman redeemed itself in co-ed touch, copping a freebie from Quincy which defaulted.