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...look at it from a momentum stand point there was a huge momentum shift in the first quarter,” Murphy said. O’Hagan would add two more interceptions before the half and Steven Williams lost both a fumbled kickoff and a fumbled punt for the Harvard’s other two turnovers. Harvard added two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, but by then the game was all but over. -Staff writer David H. Stearns can be reached at stearns@fas.harvard.edu...
...downs are not created equal. Urgency builds through each set of downs, reaching a crescendo on third down, with its tantalizing prospect of forcing a punt. In the red zone, the stakes and outcomes change—the challenge for the defense becomes holding the opposition to a field goal, while the offense strives for seven points...
...senior will add punt return duties to his resume while further honing his talents at wide receiver. But Byrnes is itching to test his arm once again...
...team have experienced such infernal luck that the university's puckish publicist Roger Valdiserri has been sighing, "You'd think Madalyn Murray O'Hair was our spiritual adviser." But beyond the bad breaks, the coach was also inclined to try 52-yd. field goals in head winds when a punt was preferable to a prayer. "Blessed Mother," Faust murmured on the sidelines, "haven't you tested me enough?" His players mumbled much the same thing. In light of such failed piety, Notre Dame's traditional boast of having God on its side has been badly shaken. In fact, some people...
...Howie Long. Next, curiouser and curiouser, Sullivan confronted Long in the milling aftermath. Linebacker Matt Millen dusted him off with a helmet, and Sullivan was restricted to the stands at Miami. In a sadder episode a couple of days later, young Wide Receiver Irving Fryar, 23, the leading punt returner in the N.F.L., showed up with a severed tendon in the little finger of his right hand. At first he described it as a kitchen accident, but Fryar's pregnant wife followed him in bruises to the emergency room, and the team has acknowledged a domestic fight...