Word: season
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson caught up with Brad Wilford on the eve of last weekend's loss to Penn, and talked with him about this season's disappointments, his relationship with Rich Linden, and the memories of his strange career...
...season has been a strange one for the Harvard football team. After two wins to open the season, the team dropped consecutive contests in heartbreaking fashion to Colgate and Cornell. They rebounded strongly, winning their next three games before falling to the Brown University Bears--the team ranked number one by most Ivy League preseason polls--to all but mathematically assure the team of a finish short of the championship. Their fate was sealed last Saturday with another tough loss, this one at the hands of the Pennsylvania Quakers...
...kind of tough on the team," said Carl Morris, a freshman wideout who has emerged as the primary deep receiving threat for the Crimson this season, after the Brown game. "We had such high expectations for ourselves. We still realize that we have a slim shot, but we're also playing for pride right...
...League football season is so short--teams play only 10 games total, seven counting for conference standings--that a team that loses its first few games all but eliminates itself from competition for the league crown. This year, for example, after losing its first two games, highly touted Princeton only sealed a final nail in its coffin by losing to the Crimson at Soldiers Field on Oct. 23. With three losses, they were finished, and the balance of the season was good only to salvage some Tiger pride...
...Also worth noting is the absence of any Ivy League playoff system or tiebreaker to determine final champions in close seasons. If, by chance, two or three teams finish with the same record, it makes no matter which of those teams beat which during the season--each will be crowned league co-champions at the conclusion of the season...