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...Harvard football team’s game against Dartmouth last weekend, tailback Nick Carrington knew that he probably wouldn’t be seeing action until the fourth quarter, if at all. As the backup to sophomore Clifton Dawson, one of the top players in the Ivy League and the holder of several Crimson records, Carrington has grown used to waiting his turn to take the field. If Harvard was up by a considerable margin, if the starters were pulled, if Crimson coach Tim Murphy needed someone to reliably run out the clock, then the senior would get his chance...
Last week, the No. 15 Harvard football team was a second away from a field goal that could end its run at a perfect season and an Ivy title. With the clock running out just before Dartmouth quarterback Dan Shula could spike the ball, the Crimson escaped Hanover with a 13-12 victory, its second one-point win this season...
Harvard’s ability to pull out the close games over weaker opponents is something that it failed to do last year when it lost back-to-back games to Dartmouth and Columbia without an injured Ryan Fitzpatrick. Those two losses ended both the Crimson’s quest for an undefeated season and hopes of an Ivy championship...
This is still the same Crimson team—depending on the Dawson situation—that put up 34 points or more in each of its first six contests and, heading into the Dartmouth game, had defeated each of its last four opponents by double-digits...
...17th minute of play, Johnston set up a corner kick to freshman Megan Meritt, who headed it to the goal where Dartmouth goalkeeper Anne Marbarger made a diving save to stop the ball right on the goal line...