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Before Saturday's game against Yale, Crimson coach Bruce Munro said, "Whoever goes after it will win." It was quite clear that Yale was the team which went after it. As has been the case all year, Harvard was terribly inconsistent. One period the Crimson hustles with great determination, and then the next quarter, the team is about as aggressive as Bambi during menopause, if deer are indeed subject to such slowdowns. That was the pattern in almost every game. Harvard was routing Penn before the Quakers rallied for several late goals and then crushed the Crimson...
...final three contests to share the title. The Elis worked hard out there Saturday, controlled the ball, and passed with a fair amount of competence, taking advantage of opportunities. Of course they had more incentives. The championship was within range, and coach Dick Corrigan was coaching his final game in a long career. But they did it before a large Harvard crowd...
Munro said the next day: "It wasn't a bad game; we didn't play that poorly." This is true to an extent, but it depends on what is "good" for Harvard's team these days. The Crimson played about as it had all year, but that is not really "good" compared to how well a team with that much talent should play. It seems likely that the disasters of this season have warped Munro's sense of judgment. But a coach of a disappointing team cannot be held responsible for the state of his mind...
...another coach or two to help Munro. It is simply impossible for one coach to handle a team of almost 30 players during practice. Two volunteers with considerable ability came down when they could to help, but there is no money to send them with the team for away games. There is a definite need for at least one more full-time coach, but until there's some more money, this is clearly impossible. The situation is so bad that the team has about three lacrosse balls. This is not as it should be, even if one only considers that...
This season has been nothing less than a disaster. Having it appear as such in print will bother some of the players. After the pitiful Dartmouth game, one of them said to be kind to them since they had had a depressing enough experience just playing the game. But I was too subdued when I reported the game; I failed to demonstrate what a horror show it was. Out of all this misfortune and now critical press coverage, maybe something good will develop. Maybe next year all of Harvard's talent can be put together to make a winning, perhaps...