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Under pressure for most of the first half the booters stayed from Coach Jape Shattuck's game plan of short simple passes and started hitting long balls from deep in the field. The style almost paid off 26 minutes into the match, when one of the deep cross found striker Lance Ayrault in the penalty box. A Huskie defender rode in Crimson captain off the ball, but the clearance landed to the feet of charging halfback Mike Mogollon. The mid fielder hit a hard shot that forced UConn goalie. Tony Pierce to the ground...
...Huskie goal only made the booters a little more anxious. "When you're seen a team pass the ball around 40 times," Shattuck explained, "you want to go out and buy a ball so you can play soccer...
Harvard, last-place finisher in the Ivies a year ago and by most accounts in a rebuilding season under Shattuck, effectively countered Columbia's refined, individual talent with strong team defense and some determined hustling in the opening 45 minutes...
...This is a team that can steal a game," said first-year Coach Jape Shattuck after the tough loss, "and that's going to be a problem for our highly rated opponents...
...Shattuck, a 1976 graduate of Syracuse University and an experienced coach and player replaces George Ford...