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With one final plunge into the darkness on the left side, Clifton Dawson simultaneously pushed Yale and the 2005 Harvard football season into history. The Nov. 19 triple-overtime victory on the Crimson’s greatest stage was an emphatic conclusion to a late-season surge through injuries and turnovers that helped Harvard finish second to surprise league champion Brown.Just three days later, as has long been the custom for the Crimson’s squad, it was announced at the team’s end-of-season banquet that linebacker Matt Thomas had won a close election...
...felt great,” says senior tailback Clifton Dawson after rushing for 170 yards in his first regular season game on the surface. “It felt fast, and I personally thank the Harvard athletic department for installing a great surface...
...years.Despite three tests in the last 15 years, no one has ever come within 50 yards of Cornell legend Ed Marinaro’s all-time Ivy career rushing record of 4,715.This year a fourth player will make a run at the top of the list.Senior tailback Clifton Dawson’s numbers are projected not only to approach, but to surpass Marinaro’s.The back entered the 2006 campaign with 3,628 career yards, needing just 1,087 to break the 1971 record. With 170 yards in the team’s opener against Holy Cross...
HARVARD The revolving door at quarterback shouldn’t phase Harvard, considering the Crimson’s dependence on senior tailback Clifton Dawson, who proved quite capable of shouldering the load against Holy Cross. The defensive line is possibly the best in the league, and coach Tim Murphy and captain Ryan Tully have raved about a young defensive secondary. Depth at wideout will also ease the early-season burden on sophomore newcomer Jeff Witt under center...
...happy with Jeff’s development.”Minimized confidence in the inexperienced Witt was clear from the play selection.Although Murphy considers the squad to be a pass-first offense, the game against the Crusaders showed that the team will rely much more heavily on senior tailback Clifton Dawson than they would have with Pizzotti or O’Hagan.During Pizzotti’s start, the offense stuck to the gameplan, with the junior getting the call 13 times to Dawson’s five. The breakdown for Witt’s nearly three quarters of play...