Word: crimsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know, a football game hardly compares with the sanctity of the Jewish New Year (though I've never understood why we celebrate the new year in September), but the Crimson needs all the support it can get. Now that's not to say Harvard's in trouble. Columbia is nothing to write home about. I know you don't read the magazine, Rabbi--neither do I. But someone forced me to read Penthouse's college football preview though I refused to look at any pictures), and the magazine picked Columbia as one of its 20 worst collegiate football teams. Still...
...field and a slick ball combined with some questionable Crimson strategy to give the Lion's a few opportunities in the first ten minutes. "We got caught up trying to play short passes," Ford explained. Harvard's bunching led to two, carbon copy break-aways by Shayan within three minutes. In both cases, he took an alley-oop style pass from behind midfield and broke in behind a Crimson defender, moving his gawky frame with deceptive speed. Walsh charged Shayan, inducing him to shoot wide to the right from high in the penalty area...
...Wildcats' speed and aggressiveness proved too much for the relatively young Crimson squad, which started three freshman who have been with the team for just one week...
...Crimson defense kept the Wildcats scoreless in the second half until Sue Messier netted a deflection late in the period...
...offensive potential the Crimson showed in last Saturday's scrimmage against Boston University, when Harvard chalked up a 6-0 win, never surfaced in yesterday's game...