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...Luckily, Carl Morris knows a lot about tests. A 62-year-old balding white man with a goofy grin and a Ph.D. from Stanford, Dr. Carl N. Morris has been a member of Harvard’s Department of Statistics for going on 12 years now. He’s edited two leading statistics journals and—what’s that? You want the sports Carl Morris...
...Well, Carl Morris the professor was featured by ESPN.com a few weeks ago for creating a new statistical measure of baseball performance, one that proves that Barry Bonds’ 2002 season was the greatest offensive season of all time...
Still not good enough for you? Fine, we’ll get to the other Carl Morris in a second, but here’s the link for you—the first Carl Morris who set foot in Cambridge knows who the other Carl Morris is. (He says that he hopes the younger Morris enjoys a long professional career.) As do most people who strut back and forth around Harvard Yard all day long, lost in a world of classes, clubs and the occasional protest rally. In a place in which athletics lack the on-campus clout...
...plays keep coming. You want to hear about Carl Morris—the football Morris—and how to measure the greatest offensive season of all time? Watch him obliterate all of the single-season Harvard receiving marks he set the previous season despite injuries to Neil Rose, the team captain and one of the most efficient quarterbacks in Ancient Eight history...
...Morris is very still, sitting in his room with The Simpsons on mute in the background. He sits up in his bed, calmly answering the same questions he’s answered most of the year to yet another member of the media. Yes, ESPN has gotten to this Carl Morris as well, and so have Sports Illustrated and The New York Times. And the result is the other polished, public Morris. The answers have been given a million times now—to publications, to scouts—and the prospect doesn’t hesitate while jumping from...