Word: crimson
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...description of what happened to the Crimson last season: a few missed snaps, a close loss and the snowball started rolling...
Hafferty begins his fifth year at the helm of the water polo program with the momentum of a steadily-improving record and only two players (Joe Kaufman and goalie Greg Beber) lost to graduation, but also with the frustration of the Crimson's inability to break into the upper ranks of the nation's squads. The 1988 team finished 19-8, including a second place finish at the New England Championships, but in the Easterns, the Crimson stumbled to a seventh place finish...
...seventh is the highest Harvard has been able to finish in the Easterns in recent years, despite improving enough to dominate all of its New England rivals except Brown. From this follows the fifth-year goal of Hafferty's Five Year Plan--the Crimson must raise its level of play to match that of Eastern powers Army, Brown, Arkansas. Iona, Bucknell and Navy...
...when the Crimson plays its first game September 16 against Army in an Eastern League tournament, it is defense where Hafferty will be looking for the biggest improvement...
...Crimson, which only started practicing September 4, will be tested early by the Cadets, which worked together as early as August 15. But Harvard entered the top 20 last year with a midseason 9-7 overtime victory over Army...