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This year, Old has had to deal with a great deal of flux in the backfield. The Crimson lost two key defenders to graduation, Michael Lobach ’03 and Old’s former co-captain Michael Cornish ’03. Harvard also lost junior back Jason Andersen to a recent injury. Partly because of that injury and partly for strategic reasons, Harvard has been toying with a 4-4-2 alignment instead of its usual...
...have complete confidence in our defense,” junior goalie Aliaa Remtilla said. “Katie Zacarian is an awesome goalie and she and the rest of our backfield will take care of any of [Northeastern’s] chances...
Certainly any success either team has will be partially attributable to the vicious 5’10” defenseman in the backfield. And with the high standards Chandis sets for himself as well as the way his intensity pushes his teams, there’s a chance that Chandis could have two different Ivy League titles before he graduates...
They were making holes disappear in front of Northeastern tailback Tim Gale. They were manhandling offensive linemen so that their teammates could blow by and terrorize Husky quarterback Shawn Brady. And then, of course, they were in the backfield themselves, chalking up sacks and forcing bad passes...
...said linebacker and captain Dante Balestracci, who had another good day of his own. “Any time you can keep the offensive line and establish the line of scrimmage [and] make those running backs have to cut for three-to-four yards in the backfield as opposed to three-to-four yards downfield, it’s a lot easier for those linebackers and those safeties to make plays and get their guys...