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ITHACA, N.Y.--They say great defense beats great offense. Either they're wrong, or Harvard's defense isn't as good as I think...
...last week, quarterback Ryan Vena, perhaps the best player in I-AA, took his team 69 yards with 1:18 left and set up a game-winning 33-yard field goal for a 24-21 win. Prior to that drive, Harvard's defense had been amazing despite Colgate's great field position and had intercepted Vena three times...
That leaves a couple of different excuses to address. Both Murphy and Kacyvenski claimed that Rahne simply made great passes, that people weren't that open. Nevertheless, Harvard's scheme has to come into question because on some occasions there were huge gaps in the zone, and Rahne was able to pick the defense apart. Harvard also didn't put much pressure on Rahne in the final drives, which is puzzling because the Crimson's defensive line played well leading up to the last two series...
...This is a learning process, and we have a very young team with a lot to learn," Kerr said. "Danny Mejias in goal was just great. What we want is to make each day an improving...
...audience. That a single family has managed this feat over such a long period of time is even more remarkable. That this particular family, at least as described in The Trust (Little, Brown; 870 pages; $29.95), by Susan Tifft and Alex Jones, managed to make and keep the Times great is astounding. In almost voyeuristic detail, the ruling Times family emerges as a kind of textbook study of philandering, adultery, divorce and lousy parenting. The male heirs who got to run the paper arrived mostly either ill-prepared or suffering from the neglect of their familial predecessors...