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...Crimson ground out the remaining yards on the ground. Harvard lined up in a pro set--two backs and two wideouts. Sophomore running back Nick Palazzo gained four yards up the middle on the ensuing play. Rose dropped back to pass on second-and-6 from the 7-yard line but, finding no open receivers, tucked the ball and scrambled to just outside the Lafayette...
Harvard took over at its 20-yard line and started to try and pound the ball on the ground. Sophomore running back Nick Palazzo, a fifth-stringer coming into the preseason and starting because of injuries to Harvard running backs, repeatedly tried running up the middle on this drive, but was stopped on all of them. With Palazzo's running quelled, Rose accounted for most of the yards on the ground on the drive. Of the 16 plays and 80 yards in the drive, Rose ran on six of them for 26 yards. Rose also found senior fullback Grady Smalling...
There was freshman back Andrew Nechtem stepping up his game against rugged Eagles striker Ramon Smith, midfielders Joe Steffa and Ladd Fritz establishing a physical presence in the center of the field, and junior midfielder Nick Lenicheck creating opportunities from the left wing...
...turned out, of course, I needn't have worried. Harvard rolled off 21 unanswered points and ended up winning 42-19. Junior quarterback Neil Rose impressed once again, throwing for three touchdowns and running for two more. Fifth-string tailback Nick Palazzo picked up 101 yards, and the defense shut down any semblance of a Leopard attack...
...have to try and find a balanced attack. Obviously, any time you are down to your fifth-string in any position, you don't consider it a strength, but Nick Palazzo is a good running back...