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...they only get attention when things go horribly wrong. The long snapper, his backside thrust into the air, head peering through his legs, has one goal in life - to deliver a tight spiral to the holder, standing eight yards away on field goals and extra points, or to the punter, some 15 yards behind his butt. "It's just not a natural motion to be upside down throwing a ball between your legs," explains Mannelly on the rigors of his job - a rather lucrative one, by the way (a nine-year vet, Mannelly makes over $700,000 per year...
...blue wave of the Yale student section flowing over Harvard Stadium’s concrete wall, celebrating on Harvard’s own home fake grass, was the most painful moment of the day. More painful than the ball that wobbled off the foot of punter Matthew R. Schindel ’08 for a whopping five-yard gain. More painful than the imminent mid-afternoon hangover. More painful than the MIT streaker who graced our collective presence with less than a minute left in the game. (And that was painful...
Already leading 20-7, Yale ended what little suspense was left early in the fourth quarter by taking advantage of one of its many short-field opportunities. After a sack of Pizzotti pinned Harvard at its own 3-yard line junior punter Matt Schindel muffed his attempted punt out of bounds, where the ball was whistled out at the 8. On the next play McLeod, who finished the season as the leading Ivy rusher, took a handoff and ran around right tackle into the end zone, giving Yale a 27-7 lead...
...Harvard’s offensive stagnancy may have been due in part to four turnovers and an untimely, untouched safety, but part of the reason the Crimson had so much trouble moving the ball was the leg of Quaker punter Anthony Melillo. His per-punt average of 36.8 yards won’t turn any heads, but it was his precision at the game’s key moments that killed many of Harvard’s best chances at climbing out of its second-half hole...
...over the Crimson after losing nine straight from 1996 to 2004. Hughes is now 2-6 career against Harvard....Six different players have now attempted passes for the Crimson this season: Pizzotti, O’Hagan, Sanders, sophomore quarterback Jeff Witt, junior quarterback Richard Irvin, and senior punter Clem McDavid, who attempted a pass on a fake field goal against Lafayette....The game marked the first time since 1946 that the two teams had met as undefeateds, when Harvard was 2-0 and Princeton was 1-0. It was the first time since 1922 that both teams...