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...passes while throwing no interceptions. Compare that completion percentage to Penn’s Gavin Hoffman, last year’s Ivy League Player of the Year. Hoffman completed 60 percent of his passes—but only if you include the one caught by Harvard senior cornerback Willie Alford...

Author: By Tyson E. Hubbard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Athletes of the Week: The Football Offensive Line | 11/14/2001 | See Source »

...Tigers responded on a 27-yard scoring run by Cameron Atkinson, but senior cornerback Willie Alford broke up a pass on the two-point conversion attempt to keep Harvard in front...

Author: By Jared A. Causer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Season in Review | 11/14/2001 | See Source »

Senior Willie Alford will likely be awarded a First Team All-Ivy award. He is one of the best coverage cornerbacks in league and is rarely thrown at. Senior safety Andy Fried is the defense’s biggest clutch performer. He has single-handedly turned around the momentum in numerous games this year with bone-jarring hits. He has a knack for forcing fumbles and loves to blitz, tallying four sacks on the year...

Author: By Alexander M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Position-by-Position: Harvard vs. Yale | 11/14/2001 | See Source »

...what got Harvard to this point. It has committed the fewest turnovers in I-AA ball this season—seven—and four of those came solely in the Princeton game. Against the Quakers, nobody fumbled or threw a pick, while the Crimson picked up an interception by Willie Alford and a blocked punt by Rodney Thomas...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As Usual, Football Rolls | 11/13/2001 | See Source »

...ensuing possession. From the 49, Quaker quarterback Gavin Hoffman fired a pass over the middle of the field that was initially caught by senior wideout Rob Milanese at the Crimson 15. Sophomore cornerback Benny Butler, who was playing tight coverage, hit Milanese and dislodged the ball, and Alford made an acrobatic play to snag the ball in mid-air for his third interception of the season...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Upends Quakers to Clinch Ivy Title | 11/13/2001 | See Source »

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