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When is it too soon to start fearing for Clifton Dawson’s freshly minted Ivy League rushing record? With 2,210 yards through 21 games, Bulldogs junior Mike McLeod is still more than a mile away (think about that), but with a 1,400-yard season for the front-running and oft-running Eli, the shifty Connecticut kid could move within striking distance...
...Mike Berg] was a great defensive lineman,” says junior defensive tackle Matt Curtis. “Coach Murphy always talks about how tough it is to replace a guy like Clifton Dawson; well, it is extremely difficult to replace someone like Mike Berg...He was the best defensive player in our league. It obviously hurts...
Fast-forward a year, however, and the culture of Harvard football seems almost to have restored itself to a pre-’06 level of normalcy. A combination of factors are to thank: Clifton Dawson’s all-time Ivy League rushing record and his signing with the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals was a feel-good on-field story for fans, O’Hagan had perhaps his best collegiate preseason and cemented himself as the starter entering his senior season, and Bagdis has re-established the year-long leadership role of the captain...
Throughout the preseason, no bigger question swirled around the 2007 edition of Harvard football than how the Crimson would run the football—a natural question, no doubt, with the departure of Clifton Dawson ’07, the most prolific running back in Ivy League history...
...Hagan looks to have returned to his 2005 form, playing mistake-free football while finding the endzone twice through the air in Harvard’s 31-28 season-opening loss to Holy Cross last Saturday. Not to mention the fact that the Crimson can no longer turn to Clifton Dawson ’07 as a safety valve, as it did the past four years...