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...Crimson heads to Penn this Saturday for the final game of its regular season, taking with it hopes for an Ivy League championship. The matchup, which may be the most pressure-filled contest of the year, will determine whether Harvard or the Quakers end the season with an Ivy League title to their name...
...women’s volleyball team played two thrilling yet heartbreaking matches against Penn and Princeton on Friday and Saturday, falling 3-2 both times. Though the Crimson (9-15, 4-8 Ivy) produced flashes of brilliance at times and executed well on offense, the Quakers (11-11, 7-3) and Tigers (16-3, 10-1) proved too much for a younger Harvard team. “We played point-for-point [with Penn and Princeton] a lot of times,” Crimson coach Jennifer Weiss said. “We really had them on the ropes. Friday night...
Despite controlling the play in the opening exchanges, the Harvard men’s soccer team found itself down 1-0 to Columbia. The Lions (3-12-1, 1-5 Ivy), who had already pulled off wins against then-No. 19 Penn as well as against annual powerhouse and then-No. 6 UC Santa Barbara, could smell another big upset. Instead of panicking, the Crimson (11-4, 5-1) gave a demonstration of the resilience that has brought the team to within one game of the Ivy League title.Six different players got on the scoresheet for Harvard who came back...
...comes out and goes up the sideline, and there’s nobody within 30 yards of him, touchdown. Unbelievable call, and the game’s over…We went straight up. A hundred football players and coaches went straight up.” Harvard, Brown, and Penn are all currently 4-1 in the Ivy League, and the Crimson travels to Penn next weekend. While the Crimson appears to be the best team in the Ivies to this point, Harvard will be tested next weekend by a Penn squad that defeated Princeton 14-9 on Friday night...
...championship repeat—though Brown’s loss to Yale Saturday affords Harvard a shot at a share of the title. But going into the home stretch of the Ivy schedule, the Crimson will have to perfect its special teams play for its final contests at Penn and against Yale at home. The Quakers’ top returner, defensive back Chris Wynn, averages about 20 punt return yards per game and 50 kick return yards per game, and Penn leads the league in both average punt return and average kickoff return. The Bulldogs’ Gio Christodoulou...