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...next day, the Crimson split again, this time versus perennial doormat Columbia. Princeton also dropped two of four. Games that used to be gimmes are now got-me?...
Harvard would have no fairy-tale ending, but the Crimson wasn’t ready to be a doormat, either...
...last year they bounced back from a horrendous non-league start to finish 10-4 in the Ivies. They won’t begin the year 0-4 in league play—there’s still plenty of pride to go around in Princeton. Brown plays the doormat in another home loss, but at least they’ll keep it under 10 this time...
...bottom two-thirds, to move into a second-place tie with Harvard in the conference standings. Neither front-runner nor upstart, the Crimson’s upcoming opponents are studies in the final two levels of quality in the league—the opportunist and the doormat. Union is definitively the latter; the Dutchwomen are working on an astounding streak of 58 straight losses in league play, dating back to February 2004. A total of 16 of those defeats have come this season, as Union has been outscored 108-11 in conference action. Further evidence of the Dutchwomen?...
...League Rookie of the Year honors (Andre Akpan). It seems that people are starting to take notice of this team at the right moment. Now, the Crimson has to hold up its end of the bargain and not suffer a letdown against the league’s doormat. If it can take care of business, Harvard will be able to hoist up a championship banner. —Staff writer Abigail M. Baird can be reached at ambaird@fas.harvard.edu...