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PRINCETON, N.J.—With 8:51 left in the second quarter at Princeton Saturday, the Harvard football team’s quarterback controversy took a new twist when senior captain Neil Rose re-emerged as an effective and efficient signal-caller...
Instead of starting quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick taking the field—as many thought he would given his solid play over the last few weeks—Rose came back under center. And unlike the Rose of last week against Northeastern, his first game back from injury where he never looked comfortable and was benched early, Rose made plays reminiscent of not only the first two games of the season against Holy Cross and Brown but also...
Harvard coach Tim Murphy was neither ecstatic nor apologetic Saturday about the current quarterback situation, which he still describes as a week-to-week decision...
Fitzpatrick also suffers periodically from nerve problems in his throwing arm, so technically neither Harvard quarterback is always completely healthy. But both are also large men who can take hits and have proved resilient...
Neither Rose nor Fitzpatrick have complained publicly about their respective situations and therein lies the rub. Murphy has made it clear that an unsettled quarterback situation is not ideal, but that as long as Harvard is winning and nobody’s unhappy or ineffective, the final four games could continue the trend of a QB controversy...