Word: crowning
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...Division foes, splitting with Yale on the road and nabbing three of four from visiting Brown. Those results set the stage for a climactic home-and-home clash with its nemesis, the Big Green, needing only two wins to advance to the ICS. In between, Harvard surrendered the Beanpot crown to crosstown Boston College, in a thorough 10-2 title-game loss at Fenway Park. In Game 1 against Dartmouth, Haviland was his normal, sparkling self, twirling ten innings of six-hit ball in a 2-1 extra-inning win, a performance that may well have secured Ivy Pitcher...
...been out of it this early, and it makes me hungrier for next year.” Two crushing defeats to Brown and a pair of slow starts against Princeton left the Crimson on the outside looking in when Dartmouth and the Tigers squared off for the Ivy League crown in March. The combination of slow starts and game-long offensive inconsistency made for a frustrating Ivy run for a team accustomed to playing in March.“From the beginning of the season we had that trouble in the first half,” freshman guard Emily...
...touchdown catches by senior fullback Kelly Widman and a 12-yard scoring scamper by O’Hagan.With its title hopes still alive, the team traveled to Yale for The Game needing a win and a Brown loss to last-place Columbia to lock up a share of the crown. Harvard did its part, winning 30-24 in epic, comeback fashion in a historic 122nd playing of the rivalry. But Brown also took care of business, handling the Lions 52-21 to lock up the championship.After the thrill of beating Yale wore off, some recognized what could have been...
Nonetheless, Hall emphasized that “one of the final views of the [review] committee” was “that Social Studies is one of the jewels in Harvard’s crown...
...Thunderstruck" by Erik Larson (Crown; October...