Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through it all, Nelson seems to have figured out some things about Harvard and soccer but he is not comfortable talking about his soccer exploits or his reasons for leaving Harvard after a month of his freshman year...
...Nelson never thought of quitting. Since he left high school, he had managed to keep in touch with the game and he wasn't going to give...
What has changed between last season and now? Nelson feels that the team is closer. Winning helps, of course, "but we lost our first game this year and didn't let down" he adds. As for Coach Ford, Nelson feels that the coach started this season with a new attitude. "There's really nothing left over from last year," and with newly hired assistant coach Kevin Welch helping out, Ford could start over and do what he wanted...
When it comes to making predictions about the rest of the season, Nelson hesitates again. "I don't want to be the first to say we can make the tournament," he says, and then goes ahead anyway: "I think we have a good shot...
Although he won't tell the whole world, after two years away from Harvard and a frustrating soccer season, Lee Nelson has things pretty well figured out. Ask him what he plans to do with a major in French and he'll tell you, "Go to France, I guess." And he knows that, regardless of what the soccer game program says, he's got at least one more season of Harvard soccer left...