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After the game, Balestracci stressed the defense??€™s role in the Crimson scheme...
...Crimson defense??€”anchored by defensive end Marc Laborsky ’02, cornerback Willie Alford ’02 and then-sophomore linebacker Dante Balestracci, all of them all-Ivy selections—allowed a respectable 20.4 points per game and gave up more than 21 points only three times in nine games...
...Crimson performed strongly against Brown’s drop-style defense??€”the same technique Princeton used last weekend to stifle Harvard’s offense. The Crimson spent a significant amount of practice time this week working on defeating the scheme in anticipation of other teams’ attempts to copy...
...felt that the Crimson’s intensity on individual defense was lacking throughout the entire contest, and noted that there would be a lot of emphasis on the defense??€™s improvement in practice this week...
With 13 of 22 starters lost—including six All-Ivy honorees on defense??€”the 2002 Crimson doesn’t even halfway resemble last year’s Ivy champions. Which, of course, makes the near-unanimous selection of them to repeat all the more puzzling...