Harvard spread four wide receivers in an attempt to jumpstart the offense. Rose rolled to his left and tried to force the ball to Morris in quadruple coverage, but the pass fell incomplete.

On the next play, Rose found Taylor at the 27-yard line, but he was hit by three Eli defenders and fumbled the ball away to Yale.

On the ensuing play, Lee knelt to run out the remaining 10 seconds on the clock and seal the 34-24 Yale victory.

"We just had kids make plays in coverage," Siedlecki said. "The wind was a big factor out there. We took a bit of a gamble, we made the decision to give them the wind [at their backs] in the third [quarter] and challenged our defense to hang tough."

Obviously, this was a gamble that paid off for Yale. Murphy denied that the wind was a factor in The Game, despite the fact that Rose's passes seemed to hang in the air longer when he was throwing into the wind in the fourth quarter.

"The wind wasn't a big factor," Murphy said. "If you're down in the middle of Harvard stadium, the direction changes, it swirls. Our guys didn't think it was a big factor."

Yale's defense was able to step up and shut down the Harvard offense throughout the third quarter. Though Harvard was able to get in the red zone on a couple drives in the third, the Crimson came up with no points in the quarter.

On Yale's opening drive, Lee found Bartholomew on a middle screen for a gain of seven yards. On second down, Bartholomew ran for a loss of two through the middle of the Harvard defense. On third down, Lee found McNamara two yards short of the marker, which forced a Yale punt.