Crimson Tops Penn In 37-6 Shellacking

Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 4--On paper, the Harvard-Penn ball game looked like a pushover. It was.

Sweeping over, through, and around the Quaker defenders a host of Crimson backs and ends ran up a 37-6 victory against an overwhelmed Penn squad today. With win, Harvard emerged as a possible contender for the Crown.

Penn only got the ball into Harvard territory twice all afternoon--one time on a personal foul, and again on the Quaker's lone score, made with 45 seconds left in the game.

Harvard scored in almost every conceivable way at some at in the afternoon. Bill Grana ran 19 yards for one touchdown and 54 for another. Dave Ward kicked a field goal.

Humenuk threw Dave Hudepohl a 41-yard pass that dropped in his arms while he had only a single step lead his defender. Rick Beizer ran half the field to score on interception, and Scott Harshbarger scored from 13 yards after colliding squarely into quarterback Tim Casgar on a draw play up the middle.

Except for an occasional spark of brilliance by Penn's sophomore tallback John Owens, the game was like this all afternoon. Penn had fewer than half as many first downs as the Crimson, gained than half as many yards rushing, was doubled in both passes completed and total passing yardage.

As Quaker coach John Stiegman admitted after the game, "we didn't play well, and then we folded completely."

Harvard's first score came after nine minutes of the opening period when a pass from center forced Penn punter John Packard into an unsuccessful run from a fourth-and-five situation on his own 27. He made it only to the scrimage line before being swamped by Crimson line-men thus giving Harvard ball deep in Penn territory.

Grana Scores First

Three line-bucks by Grana brought the ball to the Penn 13, where Bill Taylor cracked over left guard for another three yards and a first down. After one more inconclusive line back and an incomplete pass from Bassett intended for Pete Hart (broken up by Owens), Grans ran over right end for 14 yards and a touchdown.

Ward's kick for the extra point was good, giving the Crimson a 7-0 lead.

Against this drive, as throughout the game, Penn relied on a seven-man line to stop the Crimson ground attack and harry Harvard passers. Penn's offense was also somewhat unusual, including both the regular single-wing and a single-wing with fullback moved over to a position just behind the weak side end.

Harvard used its usual T and flanker-T formations, but with a great variety of personel as the game wore on and the score got higher.

The Crimson had a good second quarter, scoring two touchdowns and a field goal. On the second play of the period Penn kicked to midfield, where quarterback Mike Bassett began a seven play drive that advanced the ball to the Penn 18. From there, Ward kicked his field goal, a low wobbler which barely cleared the cross-bar.

Penn took the kickoff and in six plays moved the ball to its own 43, where Bill Gray attempted a pass on a third and five situation. Beizer intercepted the pass behind a swarm of Crimson blockers, and raced up the field for the score. Ward's conversion was good.

After several routine interchanges, Humenuk threw the touchdown pass to Hudepohl, caught with only eight seconds left in the half. Humenuk attempted another pass for the conversion, but it was batted down.

Harvard's final score came on the first set of downs in the second half, when on a second down situation, Grans took the ball over left tackle at his own 46, was momentarily stopped at the Penn 30, and then broke into the clear to make the score 36 to 0. Ward kicked his twelfth conversion in twelve attempts to make it 37.

Penn Finally Scores

Penn's lone touchdown came on an eight yard pass from Bill Gray to Bill Miller, thrown from the Harvard 21.

The victory moved Harvard into a tie with Dartmouth for third place in the Ivy League, behind Princeton and Columbia. All three of these teams scored wins over the weekend; Princeton piled up a 52-0 debacle over Brown to make its record 4 and 0. Columbia defeated Cornell, 35 to 7, and Dartmouth overcame Yale, 24 to 8.

Said Crimson coach John Yovicsin after the game, "Our best day by far--we played sophomores earl in the year and it's paying off now." He will need them, for the Crimson's next game will decide the Ivy lead, this Saturday against Princeton.RICK BEIZER on his touchdown run.