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Several injuries, most notably to winger senior Mark Puckett, also took their toll on the team, according to sophomore winger Chris Matarese...
...with Howard disrupting the Connecticut offense from his scrum half position (often compared to the quarterback position in football) and setting up his teammates with fakes, Harvard finally got its offense on track. Junior Mark Puckett struck first with a try after a Connecticut penalty, and shortly after halftime, the Crimson seized the lead for good...
Logic argues that, sooner or later, player salaries have to eclipse revenues for small-market clubs. In the past decade, baseball salaries have escalated nearly as fast as inflation in Russia. The going rate to re-sign superstars who anchor a franchise (Kirby Puckett with the Minnesota Twins, Cal Ripken with the Orioles) has doubled in the past two years, from $3 million to $6 million a season. Up until now, most owners have managed to keep ahead of their exploding payrolls thanks to ever rising franchise values, a threefold leap in marketing revenues, a 25% jump in ball-park...
...small-market club, the Twins, won the World Series in 1987 and 1991. But the architect who built these championship teams, the Twins' boyish general manager, Andy MacPhail, is worried that Minnesota will be hard pressed to compete in the future, even though it just re-signed Kirby Puckett to a $30 million, five-year contract. "The new development," MacPhail warned, "is that large-market teams like Atlanta and Toronto now have both the revenue and the ability to spend it well...
Other key Harvard scorers included freshman Mark Puckett, junior Andrew Howard and senior Julio De-Pietro...