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...matchups, bookending their careers with Ivy championships, but they also helped produce some of the most memorable triumphs in Harvard history.The Class of 2008’s introduction to Harvard-Yale could not have been more perfect. The Crimson, which took the field with a 9-0 record, had clinched the league title. The team was looking to win 10 games and to finish the season undefeated, a feat that Harvard football had not achieved for a century. With a soon-to-be NFL draftee, quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05, at the helm, and a young but dazzling...
...Johns Hopkins. Having played the Blue Jays twice before and falling short each time, Harvard’s chances looked bleak. Both teams traded scores throughout the game, and Voith rose to the occasion, leading all scorers with four goals, including two decisive scores in the fourth quarter to clinch the stunning upset. For his efforts, Voith was voted the Rookie of the Tournament and served as the Crimson’s lone representative on the All-Tournament team.While Voith and other goalscorers like Livingston and Ludwick greased the wheels to keep the Harvard machine rolling, it was the inspired...
...then both the Sadrists and various Sunni factions have displayed a new interest in gathering political power at the polls even while keeping a hand in Iraq's ongoing violence. The Sadrists are poised to win broadly in southern Iraq, while members of the Sunni Awakening Council will likely clinch victories in Anbar Province. That will leave Maliki, with a cabinet without Sadrists and Sunnis, struggling to make the case for having a national mandate...
...after yet another victory, while Harvard was left to watch and consider how it had fallen just short—again.The Big Green scored two late unearned runs to seal a 7-3 victory in Saturday’s opener, then held off a eighth-inning Crimson rally to clinch the Red Rolfe division title with a 5-4 win in the nightcap. When Harvard had only pride to gain, its Achilles’ heel—an inability to keep pace with the best Ivy League lineups—came back to haunt it once again. Dartmouth?...
...stop, Nationals. On the warmest afternoon yet of this early spring, the Harvard men’s tennis team rolled to another 7-0 victory yesterday against Dartmouth in their last regular season contest. The coaches and players can now turn their full attention to the NCAA tournament. After clinching the Ivy League title this past weekend with a 7-0 shutout of Brown, the Crimson celebrated with an encore performance against its last conference opponent. The title is the 27th in program history and the first since 2004. Harvard ends the 2008 season with an overall record...