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...this [activism] was initially in campuses other than Harvard's, and Harvard was playing a catch-up game," he says...
...Crimson had 26 shots and nine goals in the first half and followed their game plan, forcing Brown to abandon the slow-down offense they prefer and play catch...
...even Leno's monologue captured the nightgeist: "Let's move on." He then closed with three nice, clean, bland, always-good-for-a-laff jokes about Twinkies. Remember those? Letterman was playing catch-up with Air Force One jokes about the "right-wing conspiracy." It was sad. Really...
Today, the Crimson (5-7, 2-2 Ivy) hopes to snap off its past trend of playing catch-up. Saturday's game against Duke spotlighted this trend when the Blue Devils grabbed a 4-0 lead and withstood a Crimson rally...
Clearly, the sound and fury of that November afternoon signified something. Harvard, which had to climb out of more holes than Punxsutawney Phil last year, commandeered a 21-0 lead and made the Bulldogs play catch-up. And, as the tension swelled to a crescendo, Harvard checkmated Yale at midfield on the Elis' final drive...