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Coming into the 2008-09 campaign as the defending Ivy League champion, the Harvard men’s tennis team (13-9, 5-2 Ivy) was confident about its potential, but the season was far from easy for the Crimson rackets. Harvard started off the year facing a number of top-30 teams—including No. 1 Georgia—in a series of diagnostic tests for the Crimson. Harvard struggled against the top-notch competition, although No. 69 Chris Clayton, the Crimson co-captain, provided one bright spot, beating No. 12 Nate Schnugg of Georgia. Harvard competed...
...football team was the class of the Ivy League. And in reality, the Crimson proved to be just that.Led by fifth-year senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti and a defense with a wealth of experience, Harvard finished this year’s campaign 9-1 (6-1 Ivy) to successfully defend its Ancient Eight title. “It was a great season, the first Harvard football team in 25 years to win back-to-back Ivy League titles,” captain Matt Curtis said. “That’s the goal for Harvard football every year...
...have declined to comment on Campbell—making it difficult to put together a cohesive picture of the record of the woman who claimed recently to the New York Post that she has been “scapegoated” and “can’t defend [herself...
...Harvard women’s golf team found itself in an unusual position entering the 2008-09 season. After earning its first-ever Ancient Eight crown in its 2007-08 campaign, the Crimson became the hunted instead of the hunters as it looked to defend its title this year. Not only did Harvard respond by topping the Ivy League ranks for the second- consecutive year, the Crimson did so in unprecedented fashion, winning all but one of its tournaments along the way. Harvard placed second in its lone defeat of the year to Princeton, but quickly avenged the lone blemish...
...center of that storm which beset Conte Forum was junior guard Jeremy Lin. Assigned to defend the highly-touted Rice, Lin stole the spotlight for a night. Scoring 27 points, dishing out eight assists to two turnovers and generating six steals, Lin clipped his fair share of feathers, while the All-American Rice contributed a mere 14 points...