Word: closeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's two league losses, Destiny turned its back on Harvard in crunch time. Cornell scored 14 points in the last three minutes to win 24-23 in a game that Harvard owned for 59 minutes. Saturday, Harvard made too many mistakes to win but came incredibly close...
Last year's Crimson team wasn't good enough to repeat the '97 team's success (9-1, 7-0). This year's team was good enough to come close, but unlike in '97, it wasn't a team of destiny. In Harvard's 14-12 '97 win against Princeton, Giampaolo hit a then-career long 43-yarder, and another kick went through despite being tipped as Harvard rallied from a 12-8 deficit. There was no similar sign of otherworldly blessing on this team, however...
Murphy has said repeatedly that the talent level in the Ivy League is close. This year proves him right, since four teams were tied for the league lead at 3-1 entering this past weekend. Little things in individual Ivy games determine the champion, and despite a truly great effort, it looks like this isn't Harvard's year...
Despite the game's dramatic finish, Saturday's showdown was anything but a close contest throughout the game...
...After a number of close losses to some of the best teams in the country, including a narrow 2-1 defeat at the hands of No.1 Connecticut and a heartbreaking overtime loss to No.17 Princeton, Harvard finally showed that it could beat one of the top teams in the country...