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Ironically, the most prominent of the senior pitchers is a walk-on. Barry Wahlberg, a former Crimson quarterback, is now the team’s captain and closer. Wahlberg emerged as the team’s stopper during its title run last season, and the same production is expected of him this season...
Just two years ago, he seemed destined to become a mere footnote, a vague memory, the answer to an unasked trivia question. After watching the 2000 Harvard football season transform Barry Wahlberg from starting quarterback into forgotten reserve, few could have predicted that his senior year would find him chasing ghosts in the Crimson record books. Fewer still might have guessed that the records in question would come not in football, but in baseball...
Wahlberg, no longer a frustrated backup quarterback, has blossomed in his new role as the ace of the Crimson bullpen, leaving his disappointing memories of the gridiron behind. And while he is now able to look back on his football days without regret, he does so only because he has succeeded in making the difficult transition that could ultimately turn him into an all-time great...
Entering camp as a sophomore, Wahlberg was one of several competitors for the quarterback job vacated by Rich Linden ’00 and Brad Wilford ’00. Impressed by his live arm and overall athletic ability, football coach Tim Murphy slated the untested Wahlberg as the starter for the season opener against Holy Cross. But when he was intercepted three times while completing only four of his first 16 pass attempts, the sophomore was benched in favor of then-unknown junior Neil Rose, who took the job and ran. Sitting idle and discouraged on the sidelines, Wahlberg...
...Quarterback and Ms. Inside Edition didn’t announce Maryland as one of the eight finalists, and I didn’t even make it to the sweet 16. But I flew home with a lot of really great memories and a $2,500 Preliminary Scholastics Award. Coupled with my state award winner scholarship, Junior Miss paid for about four Ec10 lectures this year...