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...record, had clinched the league title. The team was looking to win 10 games and to finish the season undefeated, a feat that Harvard football had not achieved for a century. With a soon-to-be NFL draftee, quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05, at the helm, and a young but dazzling Clifton Dawson ’07 in the backfield, the Bulldogs hardly stood a chance. By the time most of the crowd pulled itself away from the Ohiri Field tailgate, Harvard had turned The Game into a rout, taking a 21-0 lead after a 53-yard...
...He’s been instrumental in our success.” The title came after a long, four-year process by which the former UCLA player was able to induce consistent improvement from his players. Scoring has gone down every year he has been at the helm, and the 19 lowest team scores in program history have all come during the last three seasons. In his four years as coach, Harvard has won a total of 14 tournaments, while the program only had five tournament victories before Rhoads took over. When Rhoads joined the Crimson, he set a goal...
Murphy, already one of the top coaches in Harvard history, only solidified his status this season. His 88 wins at the Crimson helm put him second on the all-time win list, behind only Joe Restic’s 117 career victories, and his seven consecutive seasons with at least seven victories are the longest such streak for Harvard in the modern era of college football...
...That period saw the rise of Kenyatta, who entered the Law School in 1980. An unusual student and tireless activist by most accounts, Kenyatta took the helm of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at the end of his second year and injected a social and political bent into the 15-year-old organization...
Returning to the helm of a Faculty in turmoil in 2006, Knowles provided a steady hand, restoring the calm that had been disrupted by the Faculty’s conflict with former University President Lawrence H. Summers the year before...