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...Clutch Performance...
Alvin may be a character, but a return to the Dark Ages has its drawbacks. Alvin is famous for saying, after the seventh game of the 1963 Series when his Giants fell to the Yankees, 1-0, that black and Latin American players can't hit in the clutch. Reggie Jackson, who emerged under Alvin's tutelage in the late-60s, says the man has the right kind of mind for baseball, but the man's allegedly dictatorial and racist attitude towards Orlando Cepeda certainly hobbled the Baby Cull during his early years...
Murray, who gave a clutch performance throughout the evening, was forced to prevent only 19 Terrier shots from entering the net. The Harvard defense got rolling after the first period and was able to help protect Murray and hold off B.U. for the narrow, but sweet, victory...
Jarvis said the win was particularly encouraging because "it showed the team has the ability to come through in the clutch...
...finds the seams in a zone like a pro, seems to be durable (you don't catch 13 passes in a game without taking a few nasty belts from outclassed cornerbacks and safeties), and has the instinctive ability to run a pattern which will get the necessary yardage in clutch third and fourth down situations (remember his fourth down one-handed grab touchdown against Penn, and his forth-and-18 catch Saturday...