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...year ago at this time, Pat McInally, Harvard's premier wide receiver, was languishing on the bench and watching his team trudge through a so-so 4-4-1 season...
Coming off of a hard-fought shutout at Pennsylvania last Friday, the Harvard soccer team travels to Tufts today in an attempt to improve a disappointing 3-4-1 record. Plagued by injuries and a serious lack of depth onthe bench, the Crimson booters face a rough match at 2 p.m. on the Oval...
Stevie Kidder, who is the hero of this essay, sat on the bench his sophomore year and did not get a big head at all. Junior year he got the goalie job after Messing and the rest of the team had gone all the way to the NCAA finals. Chris Papagianis told me at the time that Kidder was a "good kid, but just nowhere near as good as Shep." Papagianis, of course, had an interest in diminishing the performances of other since he had succeeded Messing as hot dog in residence. He loved being the grand...
...great honor to a great young man," Crimson coach Joe Restic said yesterday of his star quarterback. "He has just done an outstanding job for us. He sat on the bench for two years and waited his turn. I'm really glad things are going...
Harvard actually won the opening toss but elected to open the game on defense. Crimson captain and safety Dave St. Pierre explained the unorthodox move. "We felt we were the number one defense in the country, so we wanted it on the field not on the bench," St. Pierre said after the game. "And it worked out. I really think we were sticking out there today, and when you're hitting like that, people are bound to make mistakes...