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While Harvard won’t be changing what has proved to be a very successful strategy, blueliners will certainly be conscious of the greater distance they need to cover and the larger seams any misstep will leave open to an opponent??€™s attack. And that, in turn, will tweak the split-second calculation that precedes riskier defensive efforts...
...second straight game, the Harvard men’s basketball team trailed early on but managed to claw back for a tie during the second half. But for the second straight game, the Crimson watched the score, and the ball, disappear into its opponent??€™s hands...
...contributions, easily quantified statistics never quite tell the whole story. There’s no convenient measure of how often a defender is perfectly positioned to seal off a gap forming at the line of scrimmage, thereby allowing a teammate to record a tackle. Nor can an opponent??€™s unwillingness to test a particular defender’s resolve be neatly distilled into a simple number for ready comparison...
...celebration was short-lived, however, with the next weekend’s opponent??€”then No. 3 Dartmouth—looming on the horizon...
...past the first-down marker on either third or fourth down, opening up the door for some last-minute Dartmouth dramatics. Any other Saturday, it would be practically a given that Harvard’s offense would keep control of the ball instead of leaving the outcome in its opponent??€™s hands...