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...Morocco never played soccer, and he is certainly not the graceful type that could not take a hit. After starting on the offensive line for three years at perennial conference champion Sharon High School in western Pennsylvania, Morocco considers himself a football player, not just a kicker...
...think that it’s a big difference having played football in high school, you definitely know how much more every kick means to all the players when you’ve played another position,” Morocco says...
Coming out of high school, though, college scouts recruited Morocco to kick, as he had made 17 out of 23 field goals in four years as the kicker at Sharon with a long field goalof 43 yards. Morocco chose Harvard with the understanding that he would focus on kickoffs early on, because senior Anders Blewett and junior Robbie Wright were the two kickers that had done all the place-kicking the past two seasons...
When junior punter Adam Kingston established himself as the kickoff specialist for the Crimson in 2002, Morocco went back to focusing his practice time more on placekicking with the understanding that he would have a year to get adjusted to kicking in college...
...Back in August, we felt that Morocco was the kicker of the future and we could develop him for a year, because Blewett and Wright would give us a solid rotation at kicker,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy says. “Obviously, things change, and things have changed a lot since the start of the season...