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...team that will probably say farewell to its two career home run leaders (Zak Farkes and Schuyler Mann), its top postseason starter (Mike Morgalis), and arguably the two most clutch players during its Ivy title run (Ian Wallace and Rob Wheeler), the defending league champions are sitting pretty...
...immediate change was not overwhelming. Twenty-three points the next week against Lafayette and 24 against Cornell the Saturday after that. But in both cases the defense was clutch come crunch time, hauling in two fourth-quarter interceptions to stamp out the Leopards’ comeback drive, then shutting the Big Red out in its final frame. Weeks five and six were little different, as Harvard limited both Northeastern and Princeton to two touchdowns apiece, and no points in the second half and final three quarters, respectively...
...Students clutch champagne in one hand and plastic trays in the other, wading through the vaguely embarrassing rituals of freshman dining: long lines, poor food, awkward conversation. With seniors making the transition from dining halls to cocktail parties, sparkling cider to fizzy champagne, breakfast for 1,600 seems a step back...
...both instances, the Crimson survived despite substandard defensive performances that were in the end rendered moot by clutch playmaking—be it the three-point second half against the Bears or the thwarted two-point conversion and field goal push against the Big Green—mustered in the game’s deciding moments...
This dedication often translated into coming up big in the clutch because each win down the stretch prolonged Corriero’s career...