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Barely holding onto a slim, 24-21 lead against Penn, it seemed as though Harvard would surrender just its second loss of the season. With only 20 seconds left on the game clock and the ball on the Crimson 12-yard line, the Quakers looked poised to win in the final seconds. But senior safety Ryan Barnes was not going to let that happen on his watch, making the key interception in the end zone that stopped Penn’s final offensive push and sealed the game for Harvard...
...lead in the third frame at even strength on a Marie-Jo Gaudet score with just over a minute left in the game.“It’s a bit of an adjustment this year,” Brine said. “Getting a few losses under our belt early on is going to make us stronger later, because we know how it feels like to lose, and we don’t want that to happen again.”Friday’s loss was the first game back for Stone and Vaillancourt, who represented...
...Akpan said. “But in these games—with the championship on the line—it’s not about how you play or how it looks. It’s just about getting the win.”The 1-0 losses to both Dartmouth and Penn leave Harvard in third place in the Ivy League.While the championship will be split, the fact that Penn defeated Dartmouth 1-0 in October allows the Quakers to take the automatic tournament spot. Dartmouth will likely join them in the field. On the other hand, nothing...
PHILADELPHIA—Five times this season Harvard football has had its back to the wall, and four times the Crimson’s miracle train has kept on chugging.Other than the week two loss at Brown, Harvard has managed to come up with big play after big play to secure unbelievably close victories.Saturday’s win was no different.The game-sealing interception with less than 15 seconds left saved Harvard from many things, not the least of which was losing an Ivy League title shot next weekend against Yale—a sort of redemption after...
...leader of the party will become Prime Minister. Ignatieff, who left his position as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy in December 2005 for a visiting professorship at the University of Toronto, lost a controversial bid for this same party leadership position in 2006. That loss was credited mostly to the 27 years he spent outside the country, a decision believed to have caused many Canadians to view him as out of touch. “There was a feeling he hadn’t paid his dues,” said Andrew Cohen, an associate professor...