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After Fitzpatrick threw the ball away on first down, the usually sure-handed junior Kyle Cremarosa dropped a Fitzpatrick offering. On third down, emerging sophomore star Rodney Byrnes had a pass bounce off his hands.
After two well-run plays and two well-thrown balls, the Crimson faced 4th-and-10. With no other option, the Crimson went for it deep in its own territory and converted on a leaping grab by Byrnes underneath when Morris attracted double-coverage deep.
Byrnes and sophomore quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick worked well together, particularly on swing passes, which accounted for half of their hook-ups. On his longest reception of the day, a 17-yarder in the fourth quarter, Byrnes pulled down Fitzpatrick’s swing pass, quickly turned his shoulders and bowled...
Apart from his 89-yard return for a touchdown, Byrnes averaged 22 yards per return. His second longest return, a 28-yarder, might also have gone for much longer had he not lost his footing after blowing by yet another Cornell defender.
“We knew that Harvard had very good football players,” Pendergast said. “Byrnes is one of them. It’s not like you can sit here and try to game plan against one player.”