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...with Rose’s standout performance against Princeton last week—took another positive turn for the captain in practice this week. Harvard coach Tim Murphy, deciding he wanted to put his “11 best athletes” on the field, worked on using Fitzpatrick at wide receiver. Not exactly a confidence-booster for the plethora of young receivers waiting in the wings, but it was a novel experiment. Fitzpatrick lined up about a dozen times Saturday at both wide and slot receiver positions...
...Rose’s credit, he never took the opportunity to make the QB question moot by throwing a pass in Fitzpatrick’s direction, or even calling a “crossing” pattern over the middle of the field. I even wonder whether Fitzpatrick was supposed to get open...
...point where you could see Tim Murphy sitting on the sidelines plucking daffodil petals and flipping a coin between series. Against Princeton two weeks ago, he seemed to switch quarterbacks on every down. Eeeny-meeny-miney-mo, catch the Tigers by the toe. Rose or Fitzpatrick? Fitzpatrick or Rose...
...Ryan Fitzpatrick era and its desperate, heroic QB crashes for first-downs-and-more will wait a year. The sophomore has shown that it will be a show worth watching. But this seems the only satisfying way for the Rose-Fitzpatrick controversy to resolve itself. Rose, the captain who took a semester off to continue his injury-extended career in Crimson, never could have imagined fighting injuries and a stunningly effective understudy to keep...
...seeing any action as a sophomore. He was one of a trio of quarterbacks who quit around the start of The Perfect Season—along with fellow backups Barry Wahlberg and J.C. Harrington—leaving behind the apparent dregs of the QB depth chart, some kid named Fitzpatrick...