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This season, the spotlight on the Harvard football team has highlighted controversy, the revolving door at the quarterback position, and senior running back Clifton Dawson’s quest to rewrite the Ivy League record book. But little has been said about the Crimson’s receiving corps, which has quietly established itself as one of the deepest in the league and has contributed greatly to Harvard’s undefeated record through the team’s first three games. “We’ve got six or seven good guys out there...
...just normal students going to class and contributing to the community. And more than anything, the program was clean. The players stayed out of trouble. Any publicity would surely be positive. By now you know what actually happened. The captain got arrested and then dismissed from the team. The quarterback was suspended for violating an undisclosed team rule. A wide receiver was kicked off the team for allegedly performing a disrespectful routine at the annual skit night. The national media have come—unfortunately for the wrong reasons. The reputation of Harvard football has taken a beating over...
...Dawson said. “Through the first half and throughout the entire game today, they really played hard and fast, and they made it as difficult as they could.”Pizzotti’s surprise nod helped the Crimson avoid starting its fourth different quarterback in as many games, and his style as a pocket-passer also provided for a sharp contrast with the signal-caller on the other sideline. And while Pizzotti saw only limited time in a single practice this week, the Mountain Hawks entered the game fresh off their bye. Lehigh quarterback Sedale Threatt...
...Junior quarterback Chris Pizzotti made a surprise start Saturday, returning a week earlier than the most optimistic expectations for his recovery from the hyperextended knee that he suffered in a season-opening win against Holy Cross.Pizzotti practiced on Thursday for the first time since the injury and replaced junior Richard Irvin, who had been expected to make his second career start at Harvard.“I wasn’t really nervous coming in about my knee,” Pizzotti said. “I think once I took the first hit, I felt it a little...
...last week’s output of 104 over the course of the first quarter. Yet with the toughest assignment for the offensive line so far in 2006, the back had all he could handle. The line looked flat in the first quarter, letting defenders through and forcing junior quarterback Chris Pizzotti out of the pocket. Having allowed a single sack in two games entering the weekend—when quarterback Jeff Witt fell down against Brown—the squad yielded three on Saturday in addition to a number of hits and hurries on Pizzotti. It ran into similar...