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...annual year-end football game between Harvard and Yale achieved new heights in 2005. It lived up to its nickname: “The Game.”The Game was more than the fifth straight win for either team in series history. Or the first triple-overtime contest in Ivy League football history.No, Harvard’s 30-24 victory over the Bulldogs in front of a bipartisan crowd of 53,213 at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn. was a game that will be remembered for a limitless number of reasons.“It was obviously...
...took five of the top seven slots in the 5,000, while the women claimed four top spots on the day. The most notable improvement was Harvard’s performance at the Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championship. The Crimson men were seventh overall after the two-day contest. Laine, the men’s top scorer, led the Crimson to two of the top four spots in the long jump with a 7.18-meter second-place effort. Laine also earned second in the triple jump, ending his two-year reign in the event. The women pulled into an impressive...
...rebounded from an early 3-0 deficit to prevail by a 4-3 score, with all of the goals coming in an action-packed first period, to secure an automatic bid to the Frozen Eight. Freshman Sarah Wilson netted two of her 13 goals on the season in the contest and earned tournament MVP honors. Classmate Jenny Brine was tops for rookies on the team with 18 goals. For that duel, Harvard traveled to the site of its heart-breaking defeat in last year’s NCAA final—the Whittemore Center on the campus of the University...
...season.” After losing to Columbia the very next day, Harvard desperately needed to snap out of its funk, and the team did so the following weekend by securing an impressive 5-2 victory over the Quakers (18-6, 6-1), who rode into the contest on a 12-match winning streak. The Crimson then went on to defeat Princeton and Yale in two 4-3 matches before losing to Brown. Harvard closed out its season with a win against Dartmouth. In early May, Kumar and freshman Sasha Ermakov earned a bid to the NCAA Doubles Championship...
...game with the second best offense in the country, off the board for over forty minutes. “It’s a tough loss to swallow because we got more scoring opportunities even though we lost,” Saints captain Kate Michael said after the contest. As the two teams entered the last twenty minutes of the crucial game, the Harvard offense finally began to click. The momentum built through the final period, culminating in two goals within the last six minutes of play. Junior Liza Solley scored her second tally of the day just past...