Word: crowning
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...Class of 2008 outdo itself in its sophomore season?As alumni streamed into the Yale Bowl for the 122nd Game, even a share of the Ivy League title was out of reach. Brown, despite having lost to the Crimson in double-overtime, was a lock to win the crown outright. Nevertheless, the most dramatic moments of the league’s season took place in New Haven on that blustery day. The Crimson fell behind 21-3 before quarterback Liam O’Hagan ’08 found Dawson for a 16-yard pass to shave the deficit...
...11th in the program’s history and third in the last four years—but ultimately, the season was incomplete. After controlling its own destiny for an outright title in the league’s final weekend, the Crimson wound up sharing the conference crown with Dartmouth and Cornell and falling in an Ivy playoff—and losing out on a return trip to the NCAA tournament. “Our ultimate goal was to get back to the tournament,” departing captain Lindsay Hallion said...
...Green sidelined the sophomore for the remainder of the season. The forward led the team with 6.3 rebounds per game and was second with 10.8 points per game, production that was sorely missed in the later games of the Ivy season and made the road to the Anicent Eight crown significantly harder. The defeat at Dartmouth marked the first of a seven-game Ivy losing streak that would strip Harvard of its chances to nab the top spot. Perhaps the most disappointing defeat of the season came in the sixth game of the streak, as the Crimson wasted a strong...
...Connor represent only a fraction of the talented and youthful lineup poised to return in the winter. While seniors Preston, Matt Button, and Bobby Latessa will be sorely missed, O’Connor expressed the hunger of the squad to be competitive once again for the Ivy League crown. “We have another great recruiting class,” O’Connor said. “With some new faces and new energy, we’ll be looking forward to next year.” If the Crimson can limit its injuries and post a consistent...
...sealed Harvard’s third Ivy crown in the last seven seasons and denied the Bulldogs their second consecutive title, and the students rushed the field to celebrate, just as they had two years after the Crimson’s triple-overtime 30-24 win. This one, however, carried greater stakes and greater surprise...