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Pressure once forced Princeton punter Colin McDonough to attempt an illegal drop kick following his fumbled snap, handing Harvard possession at the one-yard line—leading to a Clifton Dawson touchdown—and Russell Schober’s block deep inside Princeton territory gave the Crimson the ball at the 23-yard line, setting up a field goal...
...Clifton Dawson wrote his name atop the Harvard record books in style, slipping untouched through the Princeton front seven then dashing 80 yards to paydirt. The score, his third of the game, broke the marks for single-season rushing touchdowns and total touchdowns, both set by Chris Menick ’00 in 1997. Through six games, Dawson has 14 touchdowns on the ground, 15 overall...
...There’s a lot of great athletes, and I’ve been around a few really great athletes,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “The thing that makes Clifton Dawson and Ryan Fitzpatrick so special—and I use that word, and I don’t use it very much as you know—is that they’re unbelievably mentally tough...
Cornell hasn’t allowed a 100-yard rusher this season, and the players they’ve shut down—including Harvard’s Clifton Dawson and Colgate’s Jamaal Branch—are quite impressive. And now the Big Red will attempt to add Brown running back Nick Hartigan to that list...
Either way, Princeton’s 3-4 defense will likely leave Clifton Dawson free to run wild, as he has against any front not presenting eight or nine men jamming the middle of the field to slow him down. That same unit did excel against one of the Ivy League’s top backs last weekend, though, holding Brown’s Nick Hartigan to just 66 yards on the ground...