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...Crimson (21-18-1, 13-7 Ivy) entered the Ivy season’s final weekend two games behind Dartmouth in the Red Rolfe division standings, needing three wins out of four against the Big Green—the nation’s hottest-hitting team at the time—to force a one-game playoff...
Harvard took Dartmouth down to the very last game, coming up excruciatingly short—by a score of 7-2—in the end. That was the unfortunate finale of two exhilarating weeks of offensive fireworks, cathartic comebacks and late-inning heroics...
...there was the emergence of Zak Farkes, the sophomore middle infielder whose assault on the Harvard record-books, for a stretch, transcended wins and losses. Farkes blasted four home runs against Dartmouth in the final weekend, shattering the 34-year-old school single-season record. The last of them, a missile into the trees beyond Dartmouth’s Red Rolfe Field, broke the school career record...
...there was the quiet leadership of the team captains, Trey Hendricks and Bryan Hale. Hendricks led the Ivy League in batting average (.427) and pitching wins (nine)—one of them, a complete game shutout of Dartmouth on May 2, kept Harvard’s season alive—and was voted Ivy League Pitcher of the Year. Hale, a senior from Seattle, played spectacular centerfield defense the entire year, making the most difficult plays appear easy; the most strenuous, merely graceful. His two highlight-reel catches against Brown on April 25—the last of which...
...humor magazine, released Animal House in July 1978. ’Poonsters drew on Harvard stereotypes of their Ivy rival to chronicle the drunken exploits of the fictitious Delta House Fraternity as it battles the school’s dean, who wants to expel the social club from the Dartmouth campus...