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...pound frame of center Frank Fernandez emanates an aura of quiet leadership and athletic prowess.As the senior prepares to play his last game in a Harvard uniform, he looks back on his fondest memory.“My sophomore year being part of that undefeated team, going down to Penn and winning, being Ivy League champions, it was really just a great moment,” he recalls.That the defining moment of his football career was not an individual achievement, but rather being a part of a team effort, speaks volumes about Fernandez’s persona.Never an individualist, Fernandez?...
...running a bootleg, because you figure the handoff will take care of it.”Not exactly prophetic, but the explanation is indicative of Berg’s modest, matter-of-fact approach to the game. It’s an approach that has earned the 265-pound tackle from Stamford, Conn. Preseason All-American honors as well as double-teams on virtually every play. And though those double teams have resulted in numbers slightly less spectacular than you’d see otherwise—he’s sixth on the team in total tackles?...
Last season, a familiar lesson was rudely reinforced for the Harvard men’s basketball team—attempt to challenge the one immutable law of the Ivy hoops universe and the reality of the league’s unchanging landscape will pound your squad into submission. The 2005-06 campaign was the most highly anticipated in Harvard’s recent history, as the Crimson was expected to challenge Penn and Princeton for its first-ever league title on the strength of a formidable frontcourt. Harvard was picked second in the preseason media poll mainly based...
...them sophomore Evan Harris, that can be plugged in there.It’s that pesky third position that has been subject to the most debate, and holds the most uncertainty.Last season, Michael Beal ’06 filled that role admirably. With a 6’5, 215-pound frame, Beal was your quintessential small forward—a position that in the Ivy League often becomes a swingman or third guard. He could drive the lane and kick it out to the perimeter or take it to the hole when he had to. He could bang bodies underneath...
...said that they would not change their traditional plans, he added. He said that 60 percent of tailgate funds were dedicated to The Game alone, but that this year, that money was put towards the Princeton tailgate instead. He cited Saybrook College’s purchase of a 100-pound roast pig and Morse College’s $5,000 catered tailgate as examples. Fennerty estimated that most organizations plan on spending a little over a half of the money at The Game this year than they had in previous years. According to Yale College Council Secretary Zachary P. Marks...