Word: harvarditis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says the casual observer. 6-7-1, another mediocre season for the Crimson men's soccer team. Not so, says the careful scrutinizer. For there is not a team in the northeast, perhaps in the country, that could step on the field against the 1979 Harvard eleven assured of victory...
Consider the evidence. Let's look for a second at Harvard's performance against non-Ivy teams. The Crimson played four weak non-league opponents: Wesleyan, Amherst, Williams and Bowdoin. It shut out three of them and tied Amherst 1-1 in miserable weather more suited to polarbear hunting than soccer...
...Harvard played four strong non-league opponents: the number one, two, three and twelve ranked schools in New England. Overall, in those four games, Harvard scored three times and had five goals tallied against it by teams that have a combined 53-17-6 record on the year...
...Harvard had disappointments they came in Ivy League play. An early season 1-0 loss to Cornell, a 3-0 defeat at Brown to snap its five-game winning streak, and a scoreless tie against Penn ruined the Crimson's chances of fighting Yale for the Ivy runner-up spot behind awesome Columbia...
...Harvard actually had three mini-seasons within its full season: a 1-3-1 beginning, an unblemished 5-0 string in the middle of the year, and an 0-4-1 stretch to close out its schedule...