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Harvard came out of the gates flying, winning its first six games and earning the No. 6 ranking in the country before falling, 1-0, to third-ranked Wake Forest on Sept. 26. The loss to the Demon Deacons didn’t cause the Crimson to veer off course, though, as the team picked up two more victories after the defeat...
...week stretch in October, two tough losses and one unexpected tie threatened to derail Harvard’s title hopes. Harvard tied Cornell, 1-1, on Oct. 10, and then suffered its worst loss of the season, a 4-0 defeat to No. 17 Connecticut, four days later...
After the loss, the Crimson responded with a 1-0 win over 15th-ranked Brown. Though the team followed its victory over the Bears by topping another Rhode Island school, Providence College, it would soon taste heartbreak again...
...third loss would prove to be the toughest. For the first time all season, the Crimson fell at home and to an unranked opponent when it dropped a double-overtime contest to Princeton. When co-captain Andre Akpan finally put Harvard on the board after 66 minutes of scoreless soccer, it looked as if the Crimson’s undefeated record in the Ivy League would live another day, due mostly to a strong outing from sophomore goalie Austin Harms. But 20 seconds later, the score was evened again when the Tigers’ Antoine Hoppenot ended Harms?...
...kept the team on track all year long. Having come to Cambridge on the heels of a 6-8-2 season, Harvard’s seniors never once failed to reach the NCAA tournament during their careers. When the team started to fall off track, with a 4-0 loss to then-No. 17 UConn and a 2-1 upset by unranked Princeton, it was the seniors who set the team straight...