Word: balestraccis
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Critical to Princeton’s success was running back Jon Veach’s ability to befuddle the Crimson front seven, carrying the ball 40 times but varying the rushes enough that Harvard could not find an answer until overtime. Captain Dante Balestracci and junior Bobby Everett combined for 31 tackles, but still he kept coming...
...beleaguered defense was not about to let that happen. Veach was smothered for no gain on his next attempt by captain linebacker Dante Balestracci and junior linebacker Bobby Everett. On the next play, facing third-and-six, Verbit’s pass bounced off the stomach of senior defensive end Brian Garcia and the Tigers were forced to turn to their less-than-reliable kicking game...
...only did Everett and Balestracci combine for a ridiculous 31 tackles (four of which went for a loss), their tackles always seemed to come at the most critical times...
...next play, quarterback Matt Verbit dropped back to pass, but was forced to scramble. You get one guess who pulled him to the ground on the biggest third-down stop in recent Harvard history—the one-and-only Dante Balestracci...
Everyone’s come to expect this from Balestracci, but Everett assumed the Buchanan Award finalist’s role so many times yesterday that the public address announcer was having a tough time keeping the twosome straight. And you felt bad for him, because they did kind of start to look alike...