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MacMurray came to Harvard from Melrose, N.Y., by way of Albany Academy, where he racked up 11 varsity seasons in interscholastic sports. He started for his high school football team as a fullback, linebacker and punter...
...played football here for four years, moving through the freshman and J.V. teams. In 1976 and 1977 he paid dues on the varsity special teams, covering punts and kickoffs. But at last, this season, he has arrived at true varsity status as the starting punter. It is, for MacMurray, the big time...
Against UMass, MacMurray again got a break. The Minutemen sent only one man deep, and No. 98 punted low shots into the wind which rolled away from the lone back. There were no returns, a couple of long rolls and a 35.5-yard average that day for Harvard's punter. Low-trajectory kicks again carried him to a 33.2-yard average in the Colgate game...
Restic also has nothing but praise for his punter, pointing out MacMurray's dedication toward trying for improvement. Yet MacMurray himself is as candid as anyone in assessing his own abilities. Sure he's averaging 35.0 yards per punt now -- the same average Jim Curry finished with last year -- but there's still the bad punts, the low ones that go 18 yards...
...fought the swirling Harvard stadium winds, a back injury that has put him in a brace for a part of every day, a schedule overloaded with commitments and the obscurity of being a punter who's no superstar -- just a guy who does...