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...Despite back-to-back weeks in which he failed to reach 100 yards rushing, junior tail back Clifton Dawson remains on the second installment of the Payton Award watch list that was released this week...
...Harvard offense spent the entire day searching for a rhythm it never found. The Crimson finished the day with only 226 yards of total offense—120 of it during a largely inconsequential fourth quarter.The Cornell defense once again had an answer for All-American running back Clifton Dawson, holding the junior to just 39 yards on the ground. The Big Red has held Dawson to an average of 58 rushing yards in the teams’ three meetings during Dawson’s career.“We really pointed...
...such a good back he’ll find it,” said Big Red coach Jim Knowles. “So we really sold pursuit on him, and getting 11 helmets to the ball.” Though Harvard continued to hand off to Dawson in the hopes that he would break off one of his characteristic 70-yard runs, the junior’s longest run of the day was just 10 yards.“We struggled at times to get the ball back to the line of scrimmage on our running game, and that?...
...sophomore quarterback Liam O’Hagan. After all, he was the architect of the Crimson’s two dramatic comebacks earlier this year and has since lost his top three receivers. You can’t point at junior tailback Clifton Dawson either. Sure the All-American hasn’t been as dominating as last year. But he’s routinely facing defenses crowding the line and neither he nor Tim Murphy will ever talk about how banged up he is. And how about Murphy? What, did he just forget how to coach? Unlikely. An attitude...
...football game.”On Harvard’s first possession, the Crimson’s turnover trouble reared its ugly head immediately. Junior kick returner Neil Sherlock promptly fumbled and recovered the opening kickoff. Then, on the first play from scrimmage, the usually sure-handed Clifton Dawson was unable to hang on to a sloppy handoff from sophomore quarterback Liam O’Hagan, fumbling for only the fifth time in his career but the third already this season. O’Hagan fell on the ball at the Harvard nine-yard-line to preserve the Crimson?...