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65 Ivy League Miirpliy9s law at Harvard: It can't go won THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE SEPTEMBER If, Ferrara's last-minute heroics rescue Crimson p. Coach gets off on right foot; he'll savor this win in debut i th i 3 7 i I For the spirited Lions, this was no more than another disappointment as the Crimson won for the 16th straight time in a series it leads, 42-10-1. "The reality is that if we were beaten we would have been beaten by a pretty solid team," said Murphy. "I know people would be saying, What is wrong with When I was at Cincinnati, we were the worst team in America. I know there is a definite psychology to it" The game essentially came down to the final 9 minutes 12 seconds, which started to tick away when Ferrara fumbled the snap on third and 6 at his 34.

"We had a lot of time left," said Ferrara, who stepped in to replace the departed Mike Giardi. "It was a sprint left and I was going to take it and run. I pulled out a little sooner than I should have. I got the' ball on my fingertips. "It happened to me once in high school.

We just tried to be relaxed. All preseason the coach has tried to put us under fire. He'd put us in tough situations and when it came down to it I thought of practice and the way we did it in practice." There were overtones to the way it was last year, when so many games were lost so many different ways. "We were ahead in eight games last year and lost most of them," said Brundage. "We just said, 'This can't happen It was close.

After Brian Gillen recovered Ferrara's fumble, the Lions had third and goal from the 10. Jamie Schwalbe, the throwing quarterback who alternated with option man Mike Cavanaugh, found gifted tight end Brian Bassett of Acton, through traffic and he caught it at the 1. The dangerous Marcellus Wiley, who played half the game at defensive end and half as a tailback, plunged over tight end, and when Joe Aldrich kicked the extra point after a 10-yard penalty for a celebratory infraction, the Lions went up, 32-31. Now it was game time. "I told the team, 'Hey, we're going to said Murphy.

The Crimson proceeded to move 73 yards in 13 time-consuming plays, with the durable Kweli Thompson picking up a huge first down on third and 3 from the Columbia 31, when he turned the right corner and rumbled 24 yards to the 7. After a penalty for illegal procedure, Eion Hu took it to the 4. Ferrara took it from there. a new approach. What he brought back to Cambridge for our perusal was a 37-year-old Kingston native who had taken a moribund Cincinnati program and given it life.

That pretty much summed up his task at Harvard. Murphy took over in January and informed the players that while he was perfectly aware he'd be drawing his paychecks from Harvard, he was still hired to be a football coach and he was therefore interested in developing some football players. That's football players, not (Ivy League) football players. He got them into the weight room and he instilled a football at- mosphere. When practice started they discovered that this man was serious.

There was a lot of hitting, and there was a new offense. Ready for this? Harvard's a no-huddle team. Not all the time, they aren't, but they can do it, and the new quarterback is very good at it. This is the best-conditioned Harvard team since, well, since. "It was very hot out there," said Brundage.

"We ran the no-huddle a lot and we weren't even drawing a hard breath. We couldn't have done this last year." "They completely embraced the program," Murphy said. "What I found was that these kids were serious football players. They just happened to be going to a school where playing football isn't required. If we can continue to recruit kids with that kind of blue-collar mentality, we'll be all right." The only problem yesterday was that the opponent in Murphy's first game was Columbia, and nobody wants to play Columbia.

It's the ultimate No-Win situation. Columbia won three games two years ago and two last year (in other words, five more than they won in a 44-game stretch from '84 to '88), and now has a few pretty good football players. Columbia is on the verge of being mediocre, which is a very big step up from being hopeless. Columbia has an excellent tight end in Brian Bassett, a noble two-way (TB-DE) player in Marcellus Wiley and a hard-running power back in John Harper. Any team in the league would want these players.

But the public doesn't know and field for the first time. 21-7, 28-10 and 31-18. "That was the best part," he agreed. "One thing I've been preaching is reacting to adversity. You know, if the bus breaks down, we'll push it.

If the field floods, we'll play in the parking lots. If it's 110, let's make it hotter. That type of thing. It was good to see them react well after Columbia scored to go ahead." For that he can thank Vin Ferra-ra, his junior quarterback, and Kweli Thompson, who broke a huge 24-yard run to set his team up at the Columbia 7 during the final 83-yard drive. He can thank a bunch of linemen who were able to reach back for that extra effort that was lacking last year.

He might even be able to thank Columbia, which, despite the improved talent, reverted to being Columbia when it mattered. So there were no shouldas, woul-das and kiuldas to bemoan. Tim Murphy is 1-0 as a Harvard football coach. Bob Ryan is a Globe columnist Tim Murphy leads Harvard onto the doesn't care. All the public knows is that you're playing Columbia and you'd better beat them by 30 to save face.

"The reality," said Murphy, a Brown assistant back when the Lions were legitimately putrid, "is that if we had lost we would have been beaten by a pretty sound football team. Years ago, Columbia was trying to play with Bates and Bow-doin players. Now their talent approaches the middle of the league. "But if we had lost, people would have said, 'Oh my God. What's wrong with We've now got the monkey off our back and now we can get ready for our next game." Meanwhile, it was Columbia, and Columbia isn't Penn.

"We've got a long way to go," said Murphy. "We are very thin. We played eight freshmen today, and I'm not happy about that." What did make Murphy happy was coming from behind. This would have been a catastrophic loss, since the Crimson led by such scores as By Joe Concannon GLOBE STAFF liffffflU jcjsl NEW YORK lie oituauuii nau haunting over tones to Harvard quarterback Vin Ferrara in the heat of Columbia's Wien Stadium yesterday. Just a few years ago, he had fumbled a snap from center when his New Jersey team, the Delbarton School, was playing Caldwell High School.

Ferrara had a second chance, his team won by 2 and all was right with his world. He thought of that comeback in the moments following a botched center exchange with Toby Brundage late in the fourth quarter that gave the Lions the opportunity to take their 32-31 lead. Reenter Ferrara, and 13 plays later, he swept 4 yards on the option down the left side for the score and ran for 2 points with 21 seconds left. Final score: Harvard 39, Columbia 32. This marked the Crimson coaching debut of Tim Murphy, who replaced the legendary Joe Restic after his 23 seasons at Soldiers Field.

Murphy became the first Crimson coach to win a debut game since Arthur L. Valpey opened with a win in 1948 over the same Lions, who had stunned unbeaten Army, 21-20, in one of the college game's great upsets just one year earlier. HARVARD, 39-32 Harvard 7 14 7 11-39 Columbia 0 10 8 14-32 Hu 4 run (Patrick Hannon kick) Matt Gargulinski 5 pass from Vincent Ferrara (Hannon kick) C-Marcellus Wiley 1 run (Joe Aldrich kick) Kweli Thompson 38 pass from Ferrara (Hannon kick) C-FG Aldrich 31 Hu 3 run (Hannon kick) C-John Harper 4 run (Anthony Jackson run) H-FG Hannon 29 C- Brian Bassett 15 pass from Jamie Schwalbe (Aldrich kick) C-Wiley 1 run (Aldrich kick) Ferrara 4 run (Ferrara run) A Har Col First downs 27 25 Rushes-yards 45-179 55-223 245 174 Return yards 12 8 Comp-att-int 22-32-0 14-28-1 Punts 3-35 2-34 Fumbles-lost 4-2 3-0 Penalties-yards 5-50 4-42 Possession 25:23 34:37 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING -H, Hu 18-73, Thompson 12-60, Ferrara 11-30; Harper 7-77, Wiley 9-, 49, Jackson 14-41, Mike Cavanaugh 4-37. PASSING -H, Ferrara 22-32-0-245; Schwalbe 14-26-1-174, Cavanaugh 0-2-0-0. RECEIVING -H, Thompson 7-89, Gargulinski 5-67, Mike Halligan 5-45; Bassett 8-101, Justin Fossbender 2-37, David Ramirez 1-15.

"Even though we led at the half, we weren't playing that well," said Whipple, "and I didn't do a good job of making adjustments at halftime. In the second half, we didn't execute offensively or defensively." Yale's defense shut down Brown over the last 30 minutes, limiting it to 42 yards and three first downs. Tr ff-K NEW YORK ''y' Some day, far in Wf5 the future, when ''P gS Iim Murphy will -nj aiiecuonaieiy De 3 9 1 FT1 Known as ne Grand Old Man of Harvard Football, he will have a particular fondness for this day and this team. "Ah, that bunch back in '94," hell say. "Gutsy kids.

Gave me my first win up there at the tip of Manhattan. Tough day. People thought it would have been a disgrace losing to Co- Ifrtnbia, but let me tell you, that wasn't a bad team, not a bad team at all. That was a pretty good ball-game." Sure was. It was a little morality ri i lay, wim vuiuiuuia iigiiung lis losing legacy and Harvard entering a new era with a new and vibrant head coach, and Harvard pulled it out, presenting Tim Murphy with a de- Ktuimc (W-oi vrpcuiiig uaj picocnu "Just another day at the office," Maybe it will be, but for Harvard, this triumnh represented i something new, at least for this bunch.

The truth is that the 1993 Harvard team specialized in losing games that should have, or, at least, could have, been won. And when Co-; lumbia went ahead, 32-31, with 4:55 (after trailing, 28-10), an unpleasant feeling ofdeja vu swept through the Crimson. "Without a doubt," said center Toby Brundage. "When they scored that last touchdown, I said, We can't let this thing happen again. We should have been 6-4 last year." 1 l- Instead, Harvard lost its last five games and finished 3-7.

You can look it up. i Things had gotten how shall we put this? a bit stale in the Harvard football program. Joe Restic was terrific for the program for the first 15 or so years, but the last few were not pretty. Harvard football had no spark. Not many Ws, either.

So after Restic closed out his 23-year career with a 33-31 loss to That School in New Haven last November, athletic director Bill Geary wpnt searching for a new coach with are on roll ASSOCIATED PRESS Terrance Stokes ran for 143 yards and a touchdown and Penn scored on its first four possessions yesterday in KOUnOUP stretching its win- ning streak to 13 games with a 27-7 victory over La- fayette in Philadelphia. Penn (1-0) gained 257 yards and held Lafayette (0-2) to i just 84 yards on the ground. The defending Ivy League champions, who haven't lost since 1992, also got two field goals from Andy Glockner. Penn took a 9-0 lead in the first quarter when Glockner kicked a 34- yard field goal and Stokes scored on a 7-yard run. Colgate 20, Dartmouth 16 Freshman Mark Lindell threw two touchdowns and Jamal Patterson scored on a 1-yard run early in the fourth quar- to as Colgate rallied to victory in Hamilton, N.Y.

Dartmouth (0-1) built an early 16-0 lead on field goals by Geoffrey Willi- son of 19, 36, and 23 yards, and a 1-yard touchdown run by Pete Oberle before Lindell rallied the Red Raiders (1-1). V)(; Lindell, starting his first collegiate game, hit wide receiver J. J. Hope with a 62-yard scoring pass with 2:46 left in the first half to start the rally. Wide receiver Tom Nash passed to defensive tackle Joe Kasztenja, who lined up as an eligible receiver, for the 2-point conversioa Cornell 31, Princeton 16 Chad Levitt rushed for 112 yards and two touchdowns as the Big Red opened league play with a win in Ithaca, N.Y.

Levitt scored on a 39-yard run midway through the first quarter to put Cornell ahead for good. Jeff Collins had given Princeton a 3-0 lead with a 19-yard field goal i. Brown's offensive on wrong side of ball COLGATE, 20-16 Dartmouth 6 10 0 0-16 Colgate 0 8 6 6-20 O-FGWillison 19 0 FG Willison 36 D-Oberle 1 run (Willison kick) D-FG Willison 23 Hope 62 pass from Lindell (Kasztenja pass from Nash) Nash 36 pass from Lindell (run failed) Patterson 1 run (run failed) Dart Colg. First downs 25 11 Rushes-yards 57-210 33-66 Passing 191 190 Return yards 33 41 Comp-att-int 16-26-1 12-18-0 Punts 3-40 6-45 Fumbles-lost 2-1 3-2 Penalties-yards 5-52 5-29 Possession 33:39 26:21 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Oberle 30-142, Garcia 14-55, Riley, 13-13; Caravetta 18-58, Farland 4-12, Patterson 4-1, Lindell 7-1-5). PASSING Riley 16-26-1-191; Lindell 12-17-0-190, Hope 0-1-0-0.

CORNELL, 31-16 Princeton 3 6 0 7-16 Cornell 14 14 0 3-31 P-FG Collins 19 Levitt 39 run (Rodin kick) C-Bombach 7 return of blocked punt (Rodin kick) Levitt 2 run (Rodin kick) Smith 26 run (Rodin kick) Ross 59 punt return (kick failed) P-Harvey 31 run (Collins kick) FG Rodin 29 Prill. Corn. First downs 15 10 Rushes-yards 41-136 42-186 Passing 158 87 Return yards 161 94 Comp-att-int 13-34-4 6-14-1 Punts 5-29 7-38 Fumbles-lost 5-3 1-0 Penalties-yards 2-17 4-26 Possession 32:17 27:43 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING -P, Jordan 11-43, Harvey 12-40, Webb 5-29, Washington 12-22, Ross 1-2; Levitt 23-112, Smith 6-45, Larsen 9-26, Borges 3-4, Burke l-(-l). PASSING -P, Harvey 13-34-4 -158; Larsen 6-14-1-87. PENN, 27-7 Lafayette 0 0 0 7 7 Penn 10 0 8-27 P-FG Glockner 34 P- Stokes 2 run (kick failed) Macik 2 pass from DeRosa (Glockner kick) P-FG Glockner 40 P- Daniel 28 interception (Macik pass from DeRosa) L-Bengele 78 interception (McLaughlin kick) A- 10,714 Lit Ponn First downs 15 19 Rushes-yards 35-84 40-257 Passing 102 131 Return yards 79 98 Comp-att-int 12-35-2 14-24-1 Punts 7-33 3-36 Fumbles-lost 0-0 0-0 Penalties-yards 7-68 9-105 Possession 29:26 30:34 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING -L, Marsh 22-78, Kahn 7-32, Hunzinger 2-6, Talerico 4-(-32); Stokes 21-143, Schott 9-64, Heywood 1-34, Abye 8-14, Teodeckl 1-2.

PASSING -L, Telerico 10-25-1-76, Clair 2-10-1-26; DeRosa 14-22-0-131, Teodeckl 0-2-1-0. By John Vellante GLOBE STAFF fTJl PROVIDENCE xirc iviaiit Hippie Era" came to Brown yesterday. It wasn't very pretty. Whipple, considered one of the nation's outstanding offensive strategists, could only stand back and watch as his offense came up empty in a 27-16 opening-game loss to Yale. Brown failed to score an offensive touchdown and, although having a slight statistical edge, (299 yards to 291), the Bruins weren't the offensive threat Whipple thought they would be.

"Basically, I've never coached a team that didn't score an offensive touchdown," said Whipple, who came to Brown from the University of New Haven. "We didn't execute very well at all. It was poor play calling and poor coaching. I don't know why, I'll have to look at the films. It's very obvious, though, we need a lot more practice." The game featured two of the Ivy League's better quarterbacks -Brown's Trevor Yankoff and Yale's Chris Hetherington.

Combined, they completed 23 of 56 passes for 272 yards, but both had to give way to the play of special teams. Yale's defense, led by senior linebacker Carl Ricci, dominated. Ricci picked off three Yankoff passes, returned one 29 yards for a touchdown and another 54 yards to the 1 before being caught from behind. He also had nine tackles (seven unassisted). "He's just a fine athlete," said Yale coach Carm Cozza, dean of Ivy coaches starting his 30th year.

"He missed most of practice last week with a tight hamstring, so we kept an eye on him. He's a real gamer." Brown's offense came from safe- YALE, 27-16 Yale 6 6 6 9-27 Brown 3 13 0 0-16 B- Bob Warden 31 FG Rob Masella 95 kick return (kick failed) Jon Aram 88 pass from Chris Hetherington (pass failed) B-Warden 33 FG B-Eugene Smith 37 interception (Warden kick) Warden 30 FG Carl Ricci 29 interception (kick failed) Keith Price 1 run (kick failed) Y-John Stalzer 32 FG A Yale Brown First downs 19 14 Rushes-yards 52-164 34-100 Passing yards 127 199 Passes 10-22-1 16-43-4 Punts Fumbles-lost 2-0 3-1 Penalties-yards 8-60 7-58 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING -Y, Price 17-90, Bob Nelson 14-70; Marquis Jessie 21-100. PASSING -Y, Hetherington 10-22-1-127; Trevor Yankoff 13-34-4-135. RECEIVING James Langford 3-40. Aram 1-37; B.

Charlie Buckley 5-51, Jessie 3-28, Kevin Sharkey 2-38. Warden gave Brown a 3-0 lead 9:01 into the first quarter with his first field goal, but Yale return specialist Rob Masella wiped it out in seconds when he returned the ensuing kickoff 95 yards. Masella handled the kick, cut slightly to the right sideline and raced the distance untouched. Hetherington hooked up with Jon Aram on a 36-yard TD strike to extend Yale's lead to 12-3 early in the second quarter. Two more field goals and Smith's interception return accounted for the halftime score.

Yale went ahead, 18-16, 8:32 into the third quarter when Ricci picked off Yankoff and dashed to the end zone, and the Elis opened up some breathing room at 24-16 early in the fourth quarter on Keith Price's 5-yard slant off tackle. Yale's John Stalzer, who missed three PATs (John Lafferty missed another), put the game out of reach-with a late 33-yard field goal. Yale's Bob Nelson appears to have clear sailing, but Brown's Carl Lo-zanne has other Ideas in yesterday's Eli victory. ty Eugene Smith, who returned an interception 37 yards for a touchdown and kicker Bob Warden, who had field goals of 32, 32 and 30 yards and kicked the conversion after Smith's touchdown. But it all came in the first half, after which Brown enjoyed a 16-12 lead..