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Princeton is like West Coast and Wishbone—sorry, not Wishbone, that book-loving dog, but a wishbone, in that it has an offense named after it. That’s how historic a program the Tigers have: 24 Ivy League titles and a system of ball control and backdoor cuts to their name...
...barrage from deep that other teams launched, and after opposing defenses clamped down heavily on sharp-shooting Jim Goffredo as the season went on, Harvard had no one else who could consistently knock down threes on the offensive end. The Crimson was also much less adept at moving the ball to the open shooter and maintaining possession, ranking last in assist-turnover ratio.“When we weren’t able to get open shots from the [three-point line] we tried to just get shots up...we took bad shots,” Goffredo says...
...Even though his average doesn’t reflect it, this may be the best punting game we’ve had in terms of placement of the ball,” Penn coach Al Bagnoli said. “We actually spent a lot of time on kicking the ball down deep...
...about how we needed to raise our level, but at the same time, be confident in our own abilities knowing that we would score goals,” captain Charles Altchek said.The breakthrough for the win came on a spectacular play by the Crimson rookies. Chey Im received the ball in the midfield and threaded a perfect pass straight up the gut of the offensive zone to freshman André Akpan. Akpan, who was very nearly offsides, took the ball almost all the way to the end line on the right side of the goal and then launched a shot...
...soccer team faced off against the Bearcats in its first game of the NCAA tournament. The Crimson triumphed over Binghamton 2-1, but only after essentially playing two separate games of soccer.In the first half of play, it was the Bearcats who held possession of the ball for most of the time, keeping it down on Harvard’s defensive end and forcing the Crimson to step up its defensive play in order to keep Binghamton at bay. Making the task harder was the fact that the wind was on the side of the Bearcats at the time, helping...