Word: quarterback
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Harvard football coach Tim Murphy took the fate of the game into his hands last Saturday when he played junior quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick against Dartmouth...
Fitzpatrick broke his throwing hand four weeks ago against Cornell. He has practiced all of one day in the past three weeks, while junior backup quarterback Garrett Schires has taken three straight weeks of snaps. That’s a whole lot of rust that Fitzpatrick had to knock off when he came in cold in the second quarter...
...with a 6-6 score after one quarter, it is hardly time to start worrying, let alone risk losing your star quarterback with the most important games of the season to come. Schires just needed time to settle down and knowledge that the coaches had confidence...
...putting Fitzpatrick in likely erased any confidence Schires had built up during the time he admirably filled in at quarterback. Once he returned to the game in the second, he appeared to be pressing and threw an interception to kill a drive that went inside Dartmouth’s 10-yard line at the end of the first half...
...loss does not a season make. One quarterback does not a team make—though admittedly, sometimes he comes pretty close. With the Ivy championship still up for grabs, it’s time to move forward and focus on claiming the title of a league that is gradually making its mark on I-AA football...