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...literally waged war with one another over the right to attend the home games against division rivals.But really, as I think he would concede, we were just fighting over one more opportunity to have Dad all to ourselves, even if it meant sitting in the second-to-last row of the stadium and enduring the cursing and incessant farting of unhygienic, old men. We’d bundle up early in the morning, leave home by 11 a.m. to beat the traffic—Dad insisted on this, though it almost always ensured we were at the Meadowlands with nothing...
...seniors Anderson, Wang and Lyly Cao Minh a perfect 28-0 Ivy record in their tenure. “It’s pretty special for us,” Anderson said. “To come in here and be the first to win four years in a row, it’s a big deal.” —Staff writer Caleb W. Peiffer can be reached at cpeiffer@fas.harvard.edu...
...games.After a difficult loss to No. 15 Lehigh, Harvard hit the low point of its early season in a 27-13 loss to Cornell. Star junior running back Clifton Dawson gained just 39 yards and O’Hagan threw three interceptions for the second week in a row while passing for only 95 yards. Yet despite some questions, O’Hagan remained in the starting role. The team turned the ball over five times in the Cornell loss, its first Ivy defeat since 2003 and first to the Big Red since 2000.“Nobody was clicking...
...tale of two teams this past weekend in Camden, N.J.While the Harvard varsity heavyweights relinquished their stranglehold on the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championships, their lightweight counterparts took silver in a photo finish to end a season of struggle and turmoil on a positive note.Meanwhile, the second varsity heavyweight crew and the varsity straight four boat both captured national titles, giving the Crimson two gold medals on the weekend.HEAVYWEIGHTSThe last and best streak, at last, is over. For three consecutive years, the Harvard varsity heavyweights had turned Camden, into a one-boat show, dominating IRA competition and modifying...
...Boston Ritz-Carlton dinner table with his friends of 50 years, George B. “Barry” Bingham Jr. ’56 proposed the impossible: a Charles River row in a lightweight eight-oar shell to take place this week.Two years earlier he had suffered a heart attack and received a pacemaker, and in the seventies he had battled Hodgkin’s Disease. At the January dinner, friends were “relieved” at the state of his health. One month after that dinner, he contracted pneumonia, and he died on April...