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When Andy Puopolo came to Harvard, despite an outstanding high school career at Boston Latin, there were many who thought, and told him so, that he was too small to play Ivy League football. An on-again, off-again freshman season, a sophomore year spent mostly on the bench, and a painful and continually aggravated knee injury, would doubtless have been enough to convince almost anyone else to abandon their hopes for football stardom. But that wouldn't have been in character for Andy Puopolo. And it was this dedication, this will to persevere, and a quiet, unassuming, but ever...
Before the Yale game, at the final team dinner of the season, when Puopolo rose to make his statement to the team, as is the custom for each senior, he said that winning the Yale game would be for him merely frosting on the cake. The cake itself, he said, was simply playing on the team. From someone else it might have been no more than a lofty phrase, a platitude. But for Andy Puopolo, as anyone who knew him could testify, it was the simple truth...
...hard to draw lessons from Andy Puopolo's death; its senselessness and brutality need no further clarification. But it is not at all hard to draw lessons from his life, for he was a beacon of light and optimism for all who had the fortune just to come into contact with him. To his family, and to all who mourn him, The Crimson extends its deep sympathy, and expresses its conviction that all whose lives he touched are better for having known...
...Massachusetts Superior Court yesterday set March 8 as the trial date for the three defendants charged with the first degree murder of Harvard football player, Andrew Puopolo '77, who died December 17 from stab wounds he received in the Combat Zone in November...
...defendants, who were originally charged with assault with the intent to murder and assault with a dangerous weapon were arraigned on charges of first degree murder after Puopolo died...