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...this most glamorous of sports can easily compromise a school’s mission. In this respect specifically, football differs from the other 40 sports offered at Harvard: The money spent and made in this billion-dollar business, together with the number of athletes who must be recruited to field a team (last season’s roster exceeded 100 players), form a set of strains on the university system to which no other sport compares. Coupled with the additional time that student-athletes will be diverted from their studies, these disadvantages are simply too steep a price...
...Harvard men’s lacrosse team sunk the Stony Brook Sea Wolves, 9-6, in a tight game with a memorable third-period surge led by sophomores on a damp Saturday afternoon at Jordan Field. “We had a lot more enthusiasm today,” Harvard coach John Tillman said. “We could have taken a step back last week after losing, but I think the guys stepped up and it showed a lot about their character.” Last time the teams met, Harvard walked away with a 13-8 loss...
...above Cayuga’s waters, Harvard’s track and field squad looked to finish the indoor season with a strong showing in the two-day Indoor Heptagonal Championships at Cornell’s Barton Hall. The women improved upon last year’s fifth-place finish with 46 points, enough to narrowly beat Penn and Columbia for fourth. The men repeated an eighth-place finish, but improved on their point totals, raking in 14 team points.“We have a lot better team than we have had in the past few years...
...just 15-for-62 (24.2 percent) in the game. “Obviously, our inability to put the ball in the basket doomed us,” Amaker said.On the other hand, virtually everything Cornell put up found the hoop. The Big Red made 19-of-29 (65.5 percent) field goals in the first half—four more buckets than Harvard made the entire game. “They’re tough to stop, I give them a lot of credit—they have a lot of weapons,” junior guard Andrew Pusar said...
HALFTIME STATS: After what seemed like a quick start, Harvard shot a miserable 7-for-31 (22.6%) from the field in the first half. Combine that with Cornell shooting 19-for-29 (65.5%), and that 25 point lead makes sense...