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Yikes! Feisty Quakers give Elis a scare

Staff Reporter
Published Monday, October 22, 2007

With less than a minute remaining in the first half of Yale’s game at Penn this weekend, a cool breeze swept through Franklin Field, momentarily interrupting another August-like Saturday. A dark cloud suddenly obscured the glaring sun. The scoreboard read 7-7. And Mike McLeod ’09 was on the trainer’s table.

Given the foreboding conditions, it was easy to believe that time had run out on the perpetual summer that has been the 2007 Yale football season.

But after 60 minutes of regulation and three overtimes — punctuated by a steadfast goal-line stand by the Yale defense — the...

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