Word: callahan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truly a shame that Harvard football Captain Tom Callahan appeared on the Harvard football poster this year...
...shame because Callahan barely got to reap the benefits of having his visage pasted up all over Harvard Square. After all, the questionable poster showed the back of Callahan's head, so that most admiring fans wouldn't have recognized him in person even if the 6-ft. 6-in. offensive lineman spat on them...
...like his counterparts on the two other Harvard sports posters--hockey's John Weisbrod and basketball's Ralph James--Callahan was tagged with what proved to be the curse of the sports poster. All three athletes suffered devastating injuries early in the season which kept them out for a large portion of the year...
...Callahan's dooming moment came during a practice the week after the Crimson's second game of the season--a blowout win over Northeastern which lifted Harvard's record to 2-0. While turning after a routine compression blocking drill, the Kirkland House resident incurred a seriously herniated disk...
...feeling as I was walking off the field that that was my last time in football pads," Callahan says...