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Just days prior to the Crimson’s Sept. 30 showdown with Lehigh in Bethlehem, Pa., Harvard had a glaring question to answer: who would be its quarterback? With junior Chris Pizzotti nursing an injured knee and sophomore Jeff Witt out with an injured shoulder, the eventual surprise start by Pizzotti was a triumphant comeback in the early stages of the junior’s career as a starter. But as it turns out, it wasn’t even the best comeback of the afternoon. That honor went to the collective Crimson squad, a team that reached deep...
...nervous in the beginning, until a game and a half in, then I started playing and got nervous again. It’s like this cycle of being nervous and playing and nerves and playing. It was an internal battle playing them.” The intensity of the showdown against Trinity paled in comparison, however, to the importance of that weekend’s road trip to face Ivy League heavyweights Penn and Princeton. Unfortunately, the weekend was unkind to the Crimson. Harvard entered its match against the Quakers at 6-0 before losing, 6-3, and then dropped...
...Crimson player since 1996. Harvard decimated all contenders in its first few matchups of the season, sweeping through four teams by identical 9-0 scores. Following the easy wins, the then-No. 2 Crimson hosted squash powerhouse Trinity, nine-time winners of the national title. In the top-two showdown, the intensity was high on both sides, and with the contest being played at the Murr Center, Harvard supporters came out in droves. This season’s clash developed much differently than last year’s 8-1 decision in favor of the Bantams. Harvard proved...
...Absolutely,’” Crimson coach Tim Murphy said of his team’s early success.But Harvard wasn’t the Ivy League’s only squad with a chance to run the table at the halfway point. Week 6 marked the showdown of two undefeated teams when the Crimson traveled to Princeton, the first time the two squads had played each other with records of 5-0 or better since 1922.It also marked Harvard’s shot at avenging its gut-wrenching 27-24 loss to the Tigers of a year earlier...
...showdown between the Lebanese army and the Fatal al-Islam group began at 7 a.m. Friday morning when the army started shelling the camp very heavily. The soldiers have several 155-mm artillery guns on a hill about five kilometers to the east with a clear view of the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, where the radical Islamist group has been holed up for two weeks after initiating a series of attacks on government forces. Although Fatah al-Islam has past links to al-Qaeda, the Lebanese government says it has evidence that Syrian intelligence operatives are coordinating with...