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...must have appeared to most Ivy League defenses—Harvard’s included—which, with a bit of help from the Bears’ out-of-conference opponents, surrendered 1,263 yards and 17 touchdowns to the 6’2, 220-lb. rusher in 2004. Those totals were good enough for second in the Ancient Eight, behind only the Crimson’s Clifton Dawson...
...there will undoubtedly be some recurrences of that tomorrow at Harvard Stadium. No rusher of Hartigan’s talent can be pinned at the line of scrimmage by even the best of defenses. But lest Estes or Hartigan have any doubt, Murphy guaranteed that for each Brown blocker, there would be one more Crimson defender packed into the box in the hopes of clogging and holes and overwhelming the Bears at the point of initial contact...
Whether he likes it or not, Dawson is the star of the Harvard football team, the tough-to-tackle backfield threat, the Division I-A transfer who has distinguished himself as the greatest rusher ever to wear crimson, the consensus first team All-American on pace to be the best back in Ivy history...
...nine All-Ivy players the Bears have back include two-time All Ivy first-team rusher Nick Hartigan and league-leading senior receiver Jarrett Schreck. Like Harvard, however, Brown has yet to settle on a quarterback, and its offensive line has lost four players to graduation...
Even Payton, the teddy bear whose cloying nickname is "Sweetness," counts himself among the brutes. When Payton passed Jim Brown last season to become the leading rusher in league history (14,860 yds. to date), Brown gave him a blessing that the proud Cleveland runner would have withheld from Pittsburgh's Franco Harris. "Payton is a gladiator," he said. "Walter follows the code." Brown was a better runner; so was Sayers. But for running, blocking, throwing passes and catching them, Payton is all-around the most productive football player of the two-platoon era. "For most of his career, teams...